December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
32h
English
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Chapter 20. Web Performance
Sometimes it seems that no matter how fast your web site is, it’s never fast enough. Pages don’t load quickly enough, scripts always seem to take forever, and streaming video or audio brings everything to a standstill. The slower things are, the more likely it is that a user will become frustrated and give up. Improving web performance is a constant struggle for every webmaster.
In this chapter, we look at techniques to improve web performance from several different perspectives. Users can upgrade software or hardware, tweak some settings on their browser, or choose a faster modem or ISP. HTML authors can reduce the size of the content being transmitted. Programmers can do quite a bit to improve the execution of CGI programs or other scripts. Most importantly, administrators can reconfigure server software or their website design to greatly reduce the load. Most of this chapter concentrates on the administrator’s role in improving performance.
This chapter gives only a brief discussion of web performance and how to improve it. See Web Performance Tuning by Patrick Killelea (O’Reilly) for a more thorough discussion.
Client-Side Performance
As a user, your ability to improve web performance is limited by the choices others have made about content, programming, and administration. A slow web site is not going to be fast no matter what client accesses it. Still, there are some things you can do to improve your overall experience.
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