Web Performance in Action: Building Fast Web Pages
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Web Performance in Action is your companion guide to making websites faster. You’ll learn techniques that speed the delivery of your site’s assets to the user, increase rendering speed, decrease the overall footprint of your site, as well as how to build a workflow that automates common optimization techniques.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Nifty features, hip design, and clever marketing are great, but your website will flop if visitors think it’s slow. Network conditions can be unpredictable, and with today’s sites being bigger than ever, you need to set yourself apart from the competition by focusing on speed. Achieving a high level of performance is a combination of front-end architecture choices, best practices, and some clever sleight-of-hand. This book will demystify all these topics for you.
About the Book
Web Performance in Action is your guide to making fast websites. Packed with “Aha!” moments and critical details, this book teaches you how to create performant websites the right way. You’ll master optimal rendering techniques, tips for decreasing your site’s footprint, and technologies like HTTP/2 that take your website’s speed from merely adequate to seriously fast. Along the way, you’ll learn how to create an automated workflow to accomplish common optimization tasks and speed up development in the process.
What’s Inside
Foolproof performance-boosting techniquesOptimizing images and fontsHTTP/2 and how it affects your optimization workflow
About the Reader
This book assumes that you’re familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Many examples make use of Git and Node.js.
About the Author
Jeremy Wagner is a professional front-end web developer with over ten years of experience. Foreword by Ethan Marcotte.
Table of Contents
Understanding web performanceUsing assessment toolsOptimizing CSSUnderstanding critical CSSMaking images responsiveGoing further with imagesFaster fontsKeeping JavaScript lean and fastBoosting performance with service workersFine-tuning asset deliveryLooking to the future with HTTP/2Automating optimization with gulp
ASIN : B0977ZQ917
Publisher : Manning; 1st edition (December 22, 2016)
Publication date : December 22, 2016
Language : English
File size : 11705 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 376 pages
3 reviews for Web Performance in Action: Building Fast Web Pages
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Yuri Stsepaniuk –
Thank you for the great book!
From +10 years experienced developer –> this is great book, I have found lots of missing areas I had to boost. Thank you Jeremy! I am curious why author didn’t include his great articles into the book, I check links not so often, but this was an exception, because Jeremy did his best to explain what you get from external reading, I recommend to follow his articles too, especially on http2 cache.
kamal –
Covering All Areas.
This book is simply superb. The main reason for it is:1. The book talks on all areas of how to speed up the web page. Doesn’t focus only on one aspect. For example, it will talk on CSS, Assets, Javascript areas in the perception of how to increase your performance. This approach is what every developer needs to have!2. This is the only book that available on this market, which takes the point one very seriously.One slight drawback is that it focus on gulp as far as build system is concerned. Webpack would have been better! :)All in all its a great book!
Al Krinker –
Very solid book on how to optimize your web applications
Very solid book on how to optimize your web applications. First of all, i was happy to see github with the source code, to me it is a must when reading tech book, so that you can clone code and see its history. Secondly, I liked the fact that author chose very popular Node.js framework along with other heavily used technologies… Why 4 stars? I guess because I was hoping to see some server/memory optimization as well… this book focuses in great extend on how to optimize your css, images, etc, i.e. front end components, and it is very interesting and indeed useful. If author could include some backend optimization tips, it would be solid 5 star from me. (Perhaps title is a bit misleading if it was not in the scope)On positive note, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about web development. It is one thing to have cool page going, but if it is loading for few seconds or more, you wont have users unless they have great patience!