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Instant PageSpeed Optimization

By : Sanjeev Jaiswal
Book Image

Instant PageSpeed Optimization

By: Sanjeev Jaiswal

Overview of this book

PageSpeed is an important aspect of web design and site management. It is a Google measure of how well the site performs to technical measurements. PageSpeed can be measured using Google's own tool or a browser plugin. It is used to score sites in indices, and is important from a UI view as it forms a large part of the success of your site.Instant PageSpeed Optimization is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises, which will help you to take advantage of the real power that is behind web optimization techniques, and give you a good grounding in using it in your websites.The book explores topics like HTML standards used for optimization, minifying scripts, and taking care of images, and solves the common errors that users do unknowingly. It will take you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of all the possible technologies to make your websitess efficient, fast, and accurate. You will not only learn basic standards to optimize your websites, but you will also learn some advanced level methods such as Apache handling, Flush methods, making AJAX cacheable, setting up browser caches, and reducing image size using CSS sprites. If you want to take advantage of all the necessary methods to make your website faster and efficient, then this book is a must-have.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Chapter 1. Instant PageSpeed Optimization

Welcome to Instant PageSpeed Optimization. We will learn how to make our website faster by following the recipes listed in this book. We will only concentrate on those recipes that will impact the website's performance. This will include tweaking the website to perform tasks such as minimizing HTTP requests, using the CDN, following standard HTML methods, and minifying scripts and Flush methods.