Professional Website Performance

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

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Front End

Chapter 1: A Refresher on Web Browsers
Chapter 2: Utilizing Client-Side Caching
Chapter 3: Content Compression
Chapter 4: Keeping the Size Down with Minification
Chapter 5: Optimizing Web Graphics and CSS
Chapter 6: JavaScript, the Document Object Model, and Ajax

Part II: Back End

Chapter 7: Working with Web Servers
Chapter 8: Tuning MySQL
Chapter 9: MySQL in the Network
Chapter 10: Utilizing NoSQL Solutions
Chapter 11: Working with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Chapter 12: Optimizing PHP

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