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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By : Andrew Caya
Book Image

Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By: Andrew Caya

Overview of this book

This book will get you started with the latest benchmarking, profiling and monitoring tools for PHP, MySQL and JavaScript using Docker-based technologies. From optimizing PHP 7 code to learning asynchronous programming, from implementing Modern SQL solutions to discovering Functional JavaScript techniques, this book covers all the latest developments in Faster Web technologies. You will not only learn to determine the best optimization strategies, but also how to implement them. Along the way, you will learn how to profile your PHP scripts with Blackfire.io, monitor your Web applications, measure database performance, optimize SQL queries, explore Functional JavaScript, boost Web server performance in general and optimize applications when there is nothing left to optimize by going beyond performance. After reading this book, you will know how to boost the performance of any Web application and make it part of what has come to be known as the Faster Web.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Faster Web – Getting Started
6
Querying a Modern SQL Database Efficiently
Index

Speed perception


Firstly, according to Paul Bakaus, a person's consciousness lags about 80 milliseconds behind what is currently happening. Indeed, the subjective present is always an objective past. Moreover, a person will need more time to understand and fully perceive current events if these are more intellectually complex in nature. These factors are true of any person. Thus, all users will unconsciously grant this free start up time for computer processing.

Secondly, the emotional state of the user has a strong effect on perceived time. In a fairly recent study by Awwwards and Google [1], it has been stated that anxious or rushed users will perceive more than 50% of websites as loading slowly compared to less than 25% for calm and relaxed users. This is equally true for users that are on the move compared to those that are comfortably sitting down:

The influence of a person's emotional state or level of activity when it comes to speed perception

Thirdly, age is an important factor when...