Good book. Small but packed with information. It's really only useful for developers that are running high-traffic sites. If you're not getting 100k visitors per day then many of the ideas will be overkill. But if you are getting that kind of traffic then most of the ideas will be things that you will need to be looking into. (

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conceptDawg | Sep 2, 2009 |

While this book contains information of use to any web developer (particularly the chapters about JavaScript and image optimization), some of the information will be relevant only for those working on larger-scale websites (e.g. the use of Comet and web workers).

I found the chapters on loading JavaScript without blocking other downloads, and position of inline scripts to be particularly useful, though these aren't things I would generally worry about too much on lower traffic websites. (

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lukeasrodgers | Aug 14, 2009 |

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Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance. 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 and pragmatic advice for improving your site's performance in three critical categories: JavaScript-Get advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more. Network-Learn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunked encoding 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 2.0 applications. With this book, you'll learn how to shave precious seconds off your sites' load times and make them respond even faster. This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.

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