The Web Performance Collection

Bruno Skvorc, Maria Antonietta Perna, Craig Buckler, Ivan Curic, Christopher Pitt, Tonino Jankov, Reza Lavaryan, Daniel Berman, Ahmed Bouchefra, Hayden James, Zoran Antolovic, Claudio Ribeiro

• Publisher: SitePoint
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781492069805
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Web Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Performance simply matters. Technology may allow us to "go bigger", but maybe not necessarily be better when it comes to performance. Now is the time to utilize the amazing tools that are available to us for making websites and applications faster, and to learn how to improve user experience and satisfaction.

This collection contains four books:

• Front-end Performance is a collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers. It's packed with useful, real world hints and tips that you can use on your sites today.
• Back-end Performance is a collection of articles on back-end website performance for web developers. It outlines useful strategies and practical advice.
• Performance Tools contains tutorials on some of the most popular and powerful website performance tools available.
• Performance Project contains a series of practical, real-world tutorials, all based around a single project: a simple image gallery blog. We'll build the project, and then run through a series of performance optimization processes; by the time we're done, we'll have achieved very significant performance improvements.

• This collection is for developers who wish to build sites and apps that run faster. You'll need to be familiar with HTML and CSS and have a reasonable level of understanding of JavaScript in order to follow the discussion, and for book 2, Back-end Performance, you'll need some understanding of server-side development.
  
  

Table of contents

• The Web Performance Collection
• Notice of Rights
• Preface
• Book 1: Front-end Performance
• Chapter 1: Which Browsers Should Your Website Support?
• Chapter 2: Are Your WordPress Themes Flexible or Fast?
• Chapter 3: Five Techniques to Lazy Load Images for Website Performance
• Chapter 4: Optimizing CSS: ID Selectors and Other Myths
• Chapter 5: Optimizing CSS: Tweaking Animation Performance with DevTools
• Chapter 6: Lightning Fast Websites with Prefetching
• Chapter 7: Optimizing Web Fonts for Performance: the State of the Art
• Chapter 9: JavaScript Performance Optimization Tips: An Overview
• Chapter 9: 7 Performance Tips for Jank-free JavaScript Animations
• Chapter 10: What Is a CDN and How Does It Work?
• Book 2: Back-end Performance
• Chapter 1: How to Optimize MySQL: Indexes, Slow Queries, Configuration
• Chapter 2: How to Read Big Files with PHP (Without Killing Your Server)
• Chapter 3: WordPress Optimization
• Chapter 4: HTTP/2: Background, Performance Benefits and Implementations
• Chapter 5: Apache vs Nginx Performance: Optimization Techniques
• Chapter 6: An In-depth Walkthrough of Supercharging Apps with Blackfire
• Chapter 7: How to Boost Your Server Performance with Varnish
• Chapter 8: How to Process Server Logs
• Book 3: Performance Tools
• Chapter 1: 23 Development Tools for Boosting Website Performance
• Chapter 2: Improving Page Load Performance: Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix
• Chapter 3: PHP-FPM Tuning: Using pm static for Max Performance
• Chapter 4: Optimization Auditing: A Deep Dive into Chrome's Dev Console
• Chapter 5: Performance Auditing: A Firefox Developer Tools Deep Dive
• Chapter 6: Web App Performance Testing with Siege: Plan, Test, Learn
• Book 4: Performance Project
• Chapter 1: Building an Image Gallery Blog with Symfony Flex: the Setup
• Chapter 2: Building an Image Gallery Blog with Symfony Flex: Data Testing
• Chapter 3: PHP-level Performance Optimization with Blackfire
• Chapter 4: MySQL Performance Boosting with Indexes and Explain
• Chapter 5: Improving Performance Perception with Pingdom and GTmetrix
• Chapter 6: Improving Performance Perception: On-demand Image Resizing
• Chapter 7: Using Background Processing to Speed Up Page Load Times
• Chapter 8: Server-side Optimization with Nginx and pm-static
• Chapter 9: How to Use Varnish and Cloudflare for Maximum Caching