Despite working on the web every day, few developers have a good word to say about the monster they’ve created. This is where Jump Start Web Performance will help you.  Achingly slow sites with annoying overlays, cookie agreements, instant notifications, and obtrusive ads litter the web landscape.

While there may be some excuses for complex web applications, there’s little justification for sluggish content-based and eCommerce sites. People are notoriously impatient, and an unresponsive site receives fewer visitors and conversions.

This practical, short book provides advice, tips, and best practice for improving website performance, ranging from quick, five-minute configuration changes to major website overhauls. We primarily concentrate on front-end activities and server configurations to optimise the code delivered to a browser. Some back-end tips are provided, but this is often specific to your application, framework, database, and usage patterns. Server-side performance can often be improved with additional or more powerful computing resources.

Ideally, everyone involved in a project would consider performance from the start. Somewhat understandably, that rarely occurs, because no one can appreciate the speed of a website or application before it’s been created. Many of the tips contained in this book can therefore be applied after your project has been delivered.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Web Performance Matters
• 2. Testing Tools
• 3. Quick Snacks
• 4. Simple Recipes
• 5. Life-Changing Diets
• 6. Check, Please!

About the Author

Craig is a freelance UK web consultant who built his first page for IE2.0 in 1995. Since that time he’s been advocating standards, accessibility, and best-practice HTML5 techniques. He’s created enterprise specifications, websites and online applications for companies and organisations including the UK Parliament.  Furthermore the European Parliament, the Department of Energy & Climate Change, Microsoft, and more. He’s written more than 1,000 articles for SitePoint