PROFESSIONAL WEBSITE PERFORMANCE
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
PART I FRONT END
CHAPTER 1 A Refresher on Web Browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 2 Utilizing Client-Side Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
CHAPTER 3 Content Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
CHAPTER 4 Keeping the Size Down with Minifi cation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
CHAPTER 5 Optimizing Web Graphics and CSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
CHAPTER 6 JavaScript, the Document Object Model, and Ajax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
PART II BACK END
CHAPTER 7 Working with Web Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
CHAPTER 8 Tuning MySQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
CHAPTER 9 MySQL in the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
CHAPTER 10 Utilizing NoSQL Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
CHAPTER 11 Working with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
CHAPTER 12 Optimizing PHP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
PART III APPENDIXES
APPENDIX A TCP Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
APPENDIX B Designing for Mobile Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
APPENDIX C Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
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