作者：Steve Souders
出版日期：June 18, 2009
出版社：O'Reilly
页数：254
ISBN：ISBN-10: 0596522304 ISBN-13: 978-0596522308
文件格式：PDF

Product Description
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today’sweb applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amountsof rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, webperformance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!,provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site’sperformance.Souders’ previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by revealing that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side. In Even Faster Web Sites,Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices andpragmatic advice for improving your site’s performance in threecritical categories:
JavaScript-Get advice for understanding Ajaxperformance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsiveapplications, loading scripts without blocking other components, andmore.Network-Learn to share resources across multipledomains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunkedencoding to render pages faster.Browser-Discover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques.Speed is essential for today’s rich media web sites and Web 2.0applications. With this book, you’ll learn how to shave preciousseconds off your sites’ load times and make them respond even faster.
About the Author
Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open sourceinitiatives. His book High Performance Web Sites explains his bestpractices for performance along with the research and real-worldresults behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performanceanalysis extension to Firebug. He is also co-chair of Velocity 2008,the first web performance conference sponsored by O’Reilly. Hefrequently speaks at such conferences as OSCON, Rich Web Experience,Web 2.0 Expo, and The Ajax Experience.
Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!,where he blogged about web performance on Yahoo! Developer Network. Hewas named a Yahoo! Superstar. Steve worked on many of the platforms andproducts within the company, including running the development team forMy Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo! Steve worked at several small to mid-sizedstartups including two companies he co-founded, Helix Systems andCoolSync. He also worked at General Magic, WhoWhere?, and Lycos.
In the early 80’s Steve caught the Artificial Intelligence bug andworked at a few companies doing research on Machine Learning, includingseveral publications and conference appearances. He received a BS inSystems Engineering from the University of Virginia and a MS inManagement Science and Engineering from Stanford University .
Steve’s interests are varied. He sits on the board of FreehandSystems and Fremont Hills Country Club . He teaches Sunday School atFirst Lutheran Church in Palo Alto. He’s played basketball with severalNBA and WNBA players. He was a member of the Universal Studios InternetTask Force. He participated in setting a Guinness world record. Herebuilt a 90-year-old carriage house. He has a wonderful wife and threedaughters.