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Website Performance

by Kyle Simpson

With the rise of mobile networks and devices, website performance is now absolutely critical to building good websites and web applications. Kyle dives deep into everything web performance from resource loading, to thread, animations, JSON, minification, image optimization and more!

What you'll learn

With the rise of mobile networks and devices, website performance is now absolutely critical to building good websites and web applications. Kyle dives deep into everything web performance from resource loading, to thread, animations, JSON, minification, image optimization and more!

Table of contents

Introduction

9mins

Introduction 9m

Make Performance a Priority

53mins

Why Web Performance? 5m
Performance and User Experience 15m
How We Get Web Performance 9m
Focus on the Critical Path 14m
The Total Cost of Ownership 10m

The Middle-End: YSlow

38mins

YSlow Rules 11m
YSlow Rules, Continued 14m
Beyond the Big 14 11m
Exercise 1 2m

The Middle-End: Resources

33mins

Images 12m
Minification 6m
Exercise 2 15m

The Middle-End: Architecture & Communication

36mins

Understanding the Middle-end 10m
Introduction to Architecture 6m
Data Validation 9m
JSON, Ajax, & Web Sockets 11m

The Front-End: Resource Loading

26mins

Preloading Images 10m
Lazy Loading 7m
Parallel Loading 9m

The Front-End: Abstractions & Animation

48mins

OO is Slower 7m
Exercise 4 13m
JavaScript Animations 14m
CSS Transition vs. CSS Animation 4m
Exercise 5 10m

The Front-End: UI Thread, Garbage Collection & jsPerf

56mins

The Single Threaded Browser 10m
Threaded JavaScript 11m
Dynamic Memory Allocation 6m
Exercise 6 5m
Introduction jsPerf 5m
JavaScript Performance Mythbusters 16m
Exercise 7 3m

Conclusion

3mins

Conclusion 3m

About the author

Kyle is a freelance developer based in Austin, TX. He runs several open-source projects (such as LabJS), writes books, and speaks at meetups and conferences.

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