Lean Websites

A practical book on website performance for web developers, concentrating mainly on front-end performance improvement. It covers plenty of solid theory, but is also packed with useful, real world hints and tips that you can use on your sites today.

Topics covered include:

• User experience, design and performance
• Measuring and monitoring performance
• Setting up a page weight budget
• Network and server improvements
• Optimizing images and video
• Optimizing scripts and third party content
• Lean DOM operations

The book also comes with a handy “cheat sheet” summarizing many of the key tips contained within the book.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Performance Simply Matters
Chapter 2. User Experience and Performance
Chapter 3. Measuring & Monitoring Performance
Chapter 4. Performance Boot Camp Setup
Chapter 5. Mastering Lean HTTP Requests
Chapter 6. Producing Lean Web Assets: Part 1
Chapter 7. Producing Lean Web Assets: Part 2
Chapter 8. Automating Optimization Tasks
Chapter 9. Network and Server Performance Improvements
Chapter 10. A Multi-device Web World
Chapter 11. Mobile Optimization Techniques
Chapter 12. Performance Cheat Sheet