Appendix C. Web Site Performance Tips
When Web teams consider performance, they usually think of server-side issues such as server hardware performance, application software performance, and bandwidth considerations. The main thing that they associate with performance as it relates to client-side considerations is...a few graphics, and that’s about it.
The truth is, there are a number of client-side performance issues, many of which are quite effective in affecting the user-perceived speed of a Web site. The “time to display” in the browser and the time for the page to be ready for the user to interact with it is possibly the most important aspect of performance from a user perspective. User perspective is everything.
UI coders have to take a lot ...
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