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Professional Website Performance: Optimizing the Front-End and Back-End

November 2012

Intermediate to advanced

480 pages

14h 6m

English

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A Brief History of Web BrowsersInside HTTPHow Browsers Download and Render ContentSummary
Understanding the Types of CachingControlling CachingDealing with Intermediate CachesCaching HTTP ResponsesDNS Caching and PrefetchingSummary
Who Uses CompressionUnderstanding How Compression WorksCompression in PHPSummary
JavaScript MinificationCSS MinificationHTML MinificationSummary
Understanding Image FormatsOptimizing ImagesCSS SpritesCSS PerformanceLooking ForwardSummary
JavaScript, JScript, and ECMAScriptThe Document Object ModelGetting the Most from JavaScriptAjaxSummary

ApacheLooking Beyond ApacheMultiserver Setups with Nginx and ApacheLoad BalancersSummary
Looking Inside MySQLUnderstanding the Storage EnginesTuning MySQLTuning MyISAMTuning InnoDBWorking with the Query CacheOptimizing SQLSummary
Using ReplicationPartitioningShardingComplementing MySQLAlternatives to MySQLSummary
NoSQL FlavorsmemcacheMongoDBOther NoSQL TechnologiesSummary
SSL CachingSSL Termination and EndpointsSending Intermediate CertificatesDetermining Key SizesSelecting Cipher SuitesInvesting in Hardware AccelerationThe Future of SSLSummary
Extensions and CompilingOpcode CachingCompiling PHPSessionsEfficient PHP ProgrammingProfiling with xhprofSummary
The Three-Way HandshakeTCP Performance
Understanding Mobile PlatformsResponsive ContentJavaScript and CSS CompatibilityCaching in Mobile Devices
The LZW FamilyHuffman EncodingCompression Implementations

Bruno Skvorc, Craig Buckler, Maria Antonietta Perna, Ivan Curic

Bruno Skvorc, Christopher Pitt, Tonino Jankov, Reza Lavaryan, Daniel Berman

Christopher Cosentino

Craig Buckler

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