Even faster web sites
by Steve Souders · first published 2009
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…Amazon.com, O'Reilly or Yahoo!; just like Patrick says, these guys know their shit: High Performance Web Sites (O'Reilly, Sept. 2007): http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/d... Even Faster Web Sites (O'Reilly, June 2009): http://www.amazon.com/Even-Faster-Web-Sites-Performance/dp/0... Half of King's 'Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets' (O'Reilly, July 2008) is devoted…
on “Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it” ↗…because there is so much good information in them. - JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov - High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas - High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders - Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders Here are a few I haven't read yet but are on my to read list. - Object-Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov - Pro JavaScript Design Patterns by Dustin Diaz, Ross Harmes
on “Ask HN: I've read JS Definitive Guide, Good Parts. What next?” ↗I find the Steve Souders' books [1] "High Performance Web Sites" and "Even Faster Web Sites" methods are still fairly practical, not all of it applicable to JS directly, but still. In the end, you'll need to test your changes in the most common browsers that affect you, because each browser's…
on “How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine” ↗A bit older, but both worth a read, and most of this is still relevant today... https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/... https://www.amazon.com/Even-Faster-Web-Sites-Performance/dp/...
on “Deno: You don't need a build step” ↗I've been working in the performance industry (focusing on front-end performance and UX) for 15 years. Some resources you might find helpful: • Steve Souders' books 'High Performance Web Sites' & 'Even Faster Web Sites' – https://stevesouders.com/ – Steve literally wrote the book(s) on performance and is widely considered the godfather of the industry. • WPO stats – https://wpostats.com/ – Case studies and experiments…
on “Ask HN: How can I learn about performance optimization?” ↗…them to and -- much worse -- things being cached when you don't want them to). Seriously, this rule changes misery to joy. p.s. While copying the above link I noticed that Souders published a sequel (Even Faster Web Sites). Who here has read it? Can you report how good it is?
on “The North Face website speed case study.” ↗The book (O'Reilly's High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers): http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/d... And his upcoming book (O'Reilly's Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers): http://www.amazon.com/Even-Faster-Web-Sites-Performance/dp/0...
on “Stanford Online: High Performance Web Sites [video]” ↗…literally anything. But besides that, it already "required" a book – at least two of them in fact, both published before Google even announced SPDY: "High Performance Web Sites" [1] in 2007 and its sequel "Even Faster Web Sites" [2] in 2009, both by Steve Souders. What are they about? Essentially, optimizing your HTTP responses for the ways in which actual web browsers make HTTP requests. Any web performance analysis tool worth…
on “HTTP/2 Is Done” ↗Thanks for the link. Browsing "Even Faster Web Sites" he cited 14 rules from the first book ("High Performance Web Sites") in the preface. Rule 1: Make Fewer HTTP Requests. I guess this is what I had in mind. I have a request get the data, but how I…
on “How to Manage CSS Explosion” ↗…You can pay to watch 20+ hours of videos through Stanford ( http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do... ). All the lectures are based on my two books (High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites). Each book has a companion website with examples etc ( http://stevesouders.com/hpws/ and http://stevesouders.com/efws/ ). And there are blog posts that summarize each chapter ( http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2007/04/rule_1_ma...…
on “CS193H: High Performance Web Sites” ↗