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Speed Up Your Site[c] Web Site Optimization

ISBN: 596515081
EAN: N/A

Year: 2005
Pages: 135

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• Cover
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Every Site Can Benefit from WSO
• Companion Web Site
• About the author
• About the Contributing Authors
• About the Technical Reviewers
• Response Time: Eight Seconds, Plus or Minus Two
• Speed: A Key Component of Usability
• A Brief History of Web Performance
• Response Time and User Satisfaction
• Bailout Rates and Attention Thresholds
• Attunability
• Summary
• Flow in Web Design
• On Flow and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• What Causes Flow Online?
• Enabling Flow with Web Design
• Summary
• HTML Optimization
• What Is HTML Optimization?
• Increasing ComplexityHigher Bandwidth Designs
• How Modern Browsers Work with HTML
• How to Optimize Your HTML
• Summary
• Advanced HTML Optimization
• Table Tips
• Form Optimization
• URL Abbreviation
• HTML and Compression
• Summary
• Extreme XHTML
• Benefits of XHTML
• XHTML versus HTML
• Anatomy of an XHTML Document
• The Syntactical Rules of XML
• Converting from HTML to XHTML
• Optimizing XHTML
• Summary
• Case Study: PopularMechanics.com
• Automatic Optimization
• Manual Optimization
• Summary
• CSS Optimization
• Apply Styles Wisely
• Remove Whitespace
• Cut the Comments
• Minimize HTTP Requests
• Use Simple Selectors and Substitution
• Use Grouping
• Inheritance
• Layer Styles for Speed
• Use Shorthand Properties
• Optimize CSS Colors
• Length Units: Everything Is Relative
• Summary
• Advanced CSS Optimization
• Optimizing CSS Rules
• Substitution
• Tables and CSS
• CSS Layout Control
• Summary
• Optimizing JavaScript for Download Speed
• When to Opt for Optimization
• Trim the Fat
• Apply JavaScripts Wisely
• Minimize HTTP Requests
• Abbreviate and Map
• Crunching and Obfuscation
• JavaScript and Compression
• Summary
• Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed
• Design Levels
• Measure Your Changes
• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Refactor to Simplify Code
• Minimize DOM Interaction and IO
• Local Optimizations
• Expression Tuning
• Summary
• Case Study: DHTML.com
• Optimizing Web Graphics
• Capturing and Preparing Images
• JPEG Optimization
• GIF Optimization
• PNG Optimization
• Download Time: Packet Count versus Page Size
• On the Horizon: JPEG2000 and Vector-Based Graphics
• Summary
• Minimizing Multimedia
• Multimedia Basics
• Audio Compression and Optimization
• Video Optimization
• PDF Optimization
• Summary
• Case Study: Apple.com
• Output
• Tracks
• Image
• Adjust
• Encode
• Audio
• Final Results
• Keyword Optimization
• The Big Picture
• Keyword Optimization Guidelines
• Spider-Friendly Design Tips
• Page Characteristics of High-Ranking Results
• Summary
• Case Studies: PopularMechanics.com and iProspect.com
• PopularMechanics.com
• iProspect.com
• Server-Side Techniques
• Server-Side Includes
• Advantages of SSI: Speed and Broad Compatibility
• Tuning mod_include
• Server-Side Browser Sniffing
• URL Abbreviation with mod_rewrite
• Form and CGI Optimization
• No More www
• Summary
• Compressing the Web
• Text Compression Algorithms
• Content Compression
• Content Compression: Client Side
• Content Compression: Server Side
• Proxy Server-Based Content Compression
• Benchmarking Tools
• On the Horizon
• Summary
• Case Studies: Yahoo.com and Webreference.com
• Abbreviating Yahoo.com
• Abbreviating Webreference.com