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Speed Up Your Site By KING

Speed Up Your Site by KING


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Aims to help you learn how to cut file sizes in half. This book covers how to trim (X)HTML, CSS, graphics, JavaScript, multimedia, and bandwidth costs. It presents real-world examples which illustrate techniques with before and after code and percentage savings. It also explains how to make your pages pop onto the screen.

Speed Up Your Site Summary

Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization by KING

There's a time bomb on the web: user patience. It starts ticking each time someone opens one of your pages. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.

You can't count on fast connections either. Most of your customers are still sucking content through a 56K straw. You have to serve up greased lightning or they'll bail. That's why you picked up this book. In it you'll learn how to cut file sizes in half. You'll trim (X)HTML, CSS, graphics, JavaScript, multimedia, and bandwidth costs. Real-world examples illustrate techniques with before and after code and percentage savings. After reading this book, you'll know how to make your pages literally pop onto the screen.

About KING

Andrew B. King (Andy) is the founder of WebReference.com and JavaScript.com, both award-winning web developer sites. Created in 1995 and subsequently acquired by Mecklermedia (now Jupitermedia) in 1997, WebReference has grown into one of the most popular developer sites on the Internet. WebReference.com has won more than 100 awards, including PC Magazine's Top 100 Web Sites (nine-time winner).

As Managing Editor of WebReference.com and JavaScript.com, Andy became the Usability Czar at internet.com, optimizing the speed and usability of their sites. He continues to write the three weekly newsletters he started for WebReference.com and JavaScript.com.

Andy has been studying, practicing, and teaching optimization techniques for more than 20 years. For his BSME and MSME from the University of Michigan, he specialized in design optimization. Recruited by NASA, he chose instead to join the fast-paced world of engineering consulting at ETA, Inc., a structural engineering firm. He worked for Ford and GM, optimizing entire automotive structures and suspensions with finite element analysis.

In 1993, he discovered the web. Volunteer work with a local Free-net in 1993 led to a position as one of the first employees of Internet Connect, Inc., a web design firm. He's been working the web ever since.

In addition to his work with WebReference.com, Andy has also written for MacWeek and Web Techniques (now New Architect), and contributed to Jim Heid's HTML & Web Publishing Secrets. When he's not optimizing web sites or writing newsletters, you'll find Andy out taking pictures, sailing, or bicycling. Contact Andy through the companion site to this book at http://www.WebSiteOptimization.com.

Table of Contents



Foreword.


Introduction.

I. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE.

1. Response Time: Eight Seconds, Plus or Minus Two.

Speed: A Key Component of Usability. A Brief History of Web Performance. Response Time and User Satisfaction. Bailout Rates and Attention Thresholds. Attunability. Summary.

2. Flow in Web Design.

On Flow and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. What Causes Flow Online? Enabling Flow with Web Design. Summary.

II. OPTIMIZING MARKUP: HTML AND XHTML.

3. HTML Optimization.

What Is HTML Optimization? Increasing Complexity=Higher Bandwidth Designs. How Modern Browsers Work with HTML. How to Optimize Your HTML. Summary.

4. Advanced HTML Optimization.

Table Tips. Form Optimization. URL Abbreviation. HTML and Compression. Summary.

5. Extreme XHTML.

Benefits of XHTML. XHTML versus HTML. Anatomy of an XHTML Document. The Syntactical Rules of XML. Converting from HTML to XHTML. Optimizing XHTML. Summary.

6. Case Study: PopularMechanics.com.

Automatic Optimization. Manual Optimization. Summary.

III. DHTML OPTIMIZATION: CSS AND JAVASCRIPT.

7. CSS Optimization.

Apply Styles Wisely. Remove Whitespace. Cut the Comments. Minimize HTTP Requests. Use Simple Selectors and Substitution. Use Grouping. Inheritance. Layer Styles for Speed. Use Shorthand Properties. Optimize CSS Colors. Length Units: Everything Is Relative. Summary.

8. Advanced CSS Optimization.

Optimizing CSS Rules. Substitution. Tables and CSS. CSS Layout Control. Summary.

9. Optimizing JavaScript for Download Speed.

When to Opt for Optimization. Trim the Fat. Apply JavaScripts Wisely. Minimize HTTP Requests. Abbreviate and Map. Crunching and Obfuscation. JavaScript and Compression. Summary.

10. Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed.

Design Levels. Measure Your Changes. Algorithms and Data Structures. Refactor to Simplify Code. Minimize DOM Interaction and I/O. Local Optimizations. Expression Tuning. Summary.

11. Case Study: DHTML.com.

IV. GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA OPTIMIZATION.

12. Optimizing Web Graphics.

Capturing and Preparing Images. JPEG Optimization. GIF Optimization. PNG Optimization. Download Time: Packet Count versus Page Size. On the Horizon: JPEG2000 and Vector-Based Graphics. Summary.

13. Minimizing Multimedia.

Multimedia Basics. Audio Compression and Optimization. Video Optimization. PDF Optimization. Summary.

14. Case Study: Apple.com.

Output. Tracks. Image. Adjust. Encode. Audio. Final Results.

V. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION.

15. Keyword Optimization.

The Big Picture. Keyword Optimization Guidelines. Spider-Friendly Design Tips. Page Characteristics of High-Ranking Results. Summary.

16. Case Studies: PopularMechanics.com and iProspect.com.

PopularMechanics.com. iProspect.com.

VI. ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES.

17. Server-Side Techniques.

Server-Side Includes. Advantages of SSI: Speed and Broad Compatibility. Tuning mod_include. Server-Side Browser Sniffing. URL Abbreviation with mod_rewrite. Form and CGI Optimization. No More www. Summary.

18. Compressing the Web.

Text Compression Algorithms. Content Compression. Content Compression: Client Side. Content Compression: Server Side. Proxy Server-Based Content Compression. Benchmarking Tools. On the Horizon. Summary.

19. Case Studies: Yahoo.com and WebReference.com.

Abbreviating Yahoo.com. Abbreviating WebReference.com.

Search Engine Visibility Appendix Excerpt.
Index.

Additional information

GOR002153111
9780735713246
0735713243
Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization by KING
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20030128
528
N/A
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