Description:
"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"--P. 4 of cover
Understanding Ajax performance -- Creating responsive Web applications -- Splitting the initial payload -- Loading scripts without blocking -- Coupling asynchronous scripts -- Positioning inline scripts -- Writing efficient JavaScript -- Scaling with Comet -- Going beyond Gzipping -- Optimizing images -- Sharding dominant domains -- Flushing the document early -- Using Iframes sparingly -- Simplifying CSS selectors -- Appendix: Performance tools