Professional Website Performance: Optimizing the Front-End and Back-End

  • 9h 31m
  • Peter Smith
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2013

Effective website development requires optimum performance with regard to both web browser and server. This book covers all aspects of building and maintaining websites that deliver peak performance on all levels. Exploring both front-end and back-end configuration, it examines factors like compression and JavaScript, database performance, MySQL tuning, NoSQL alternatives, load-balancing across multiple servers, effective caching of web contents, CSS, and much more. Both developers and system administrators will find value in this platform-neutral guide.

  • Covers essential information for creating and maintaining websites that deliver peak performance on both front end and back end
  • Explains how to configure front-end performance related to the web browser and how to speed up communication between server and browser
  • Topics include MySQL tuning, NoSQL alternatives, CSS, JavaScript, and web images
  • Explores how to minimize the performance penalties of SSL; load-balancing across multiple servers with Apache, Nginx, and MySQL; and effective caching and compression of web contents

Professional Website Performance: Optimizing the Front End and Back End offers essential information to help both front-end and back-end technicians ensure better website performance.

About the Author

Peter Smith has been a full-time Linux consultant, web developer, and system administrator for more than a decade. His open source projects include modules for Apache and OSCommerce, a cross-platform IRC client, and contributions to The Linux Documentation Project.

In this Book

  • A Refresher on Web Browsers
  • Utilizing Client-Side Caching
  • Content Compression
  • Keeping the Size Down with Minification
  • Optimizing Web Graphics and CSS
  • JavaScript, the Document Object Model, and Ajax
  • Working with Web Servers
  • Tuning MySQL
  • MySQL in the Network
  • Utilizing NoSQL Solutions
  • Working with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  • Optimizing PHP
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