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    Instant PageSpeed Optimization
    Instant PageSpeed Optimization
    Instant PageSpeed Optimization
    Ebook132 pages41 minutes

    Instant PageSpeed Optimization

    By Sanjeev Jaiswal

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    In Detail

    PageSpeed is an important aspect of web design and site management. It is a Google measure of how well the site performs to technical measurements. PageSpeed can be measured using Google’s own tool or a browser plugin. It is used to score sites in indices, and is important from a UI view as it forms a large part of the success of your site.

    Instant PageSpeed Optimization is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises, which will help you to take advantage of the real power that is behind web optimization techniques, and give you a good grounding in using it in your websites.

    The book explores topics like HTML standards used for optimization, minifying scripts, and taking care of images, and solves the common errors that users do unknowingly. It will take you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of all the possible technologies to make your websitess efficient, fast, and accurate. You will not only learn basic standards to optimize your websites, but you will also learn some advanced level methods such as Apache handling, Flush methods, making AJAX cacheable, setting up browser caches, and reducing image size using CSS sprites.

    If you want to take advantage of all the necessary methods to make your website faster and efficient, then this book is a must-have.

    Approach

    Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Instant PageSpeed Optimization is a hands-on guide that provides a number of clear, step-by-step exercises for optimizing your websites for better performance and improving their efficiency.

    Who this book is for

    Instant PageSpeed Optimization is aimed at website developers and administrators who wish to make their websites load faster without any errors and consume less bandwidth. It’s assumed that you will have some experience in basic web technologies like HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, and the basics of networking, as well as knowing how to edit Apache configuration.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateSep 25, 2013
    ISBN9781849697330
    Instant PageSpeed Optimization
    Author

    Sanjeev Jaiswal

    Sanjeev Jaiswal is a computer graduate with four years of industrial experience and more than six years of web development experience. He extensively uses Perl and GNU/Linux for his day-to-day work and also teaches Drupal and WordPress CMS to bloggers. He has worked closely with major clients such as CSC, IBM, and Motorola mobility. Sanjeev loves teaching technical functionalities to engineering students and IT professionals and has been teaching since 2008. He founded AlienCoders (http://www.aliencoders.com) based on the principle of "learning through sharing" for Computer Science students and IT professionals in 2010, which became a huge hit in India among engineering students. He usually uploads technical videos to YouTube on his channel "AlienCoders". Sanjeev has a huge fan base on his site and on YouTube because of his simple but effective way of teaching and his philanthropic nature toward students.

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      Instant PageSpeed Optimization - Sanjeev Jaiswal

      Table of Contents

      Instant PageSpeed Optimization

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewer

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Instant PageSpeed Optimization

      Minimizing HTTP requests (Simple)

      How to do it...

      How it works…

      There's more...

      Adding an Expires or Cache-Control header (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Following HTML standards (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Reducing DOM elements (Intermediate)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Setting up CSS sprites (Advanced)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Enabling compression (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Optimizing images (Simple)

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Minifying JavaScript and CSS files (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Setting up browser caching (Simple)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Using Apache mod_pagespeed – installing and configuring (Advanced)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Making favicon.ico small and cacheable (Simple)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Avoiding redirects and Not Found errors – 301 and 404 codes (Advanced)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Using the Flush method (Intermediate)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Configuring ETags (Advanced )

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Making AJAX cacheable (Intermediate)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Rules for using the CSS, JavaScript, and image files (Simple)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Instant PageSpeed Optimization

      Instant PageSpeed Optimization

      Copyright © 2013 Packt Publishing

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      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

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      First published: September 2013

      Production Reference: 1240913

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      Credits

      Author

      Sanjeev Jaiswal

      Reviewer

      Ravindran Navaneethan

      Acquisition Editor

      Akram Hussain

      Commissioning Editor

      Neha Nagwekar

      Technical Editors

      Jalasha D'costa

      Kapil Hemnani

      Copy Editors

      Mradula Hegde

      Laxmi Subramanian

      Project Coordinator

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      Proofreader

      Faye Coulman

      Production Coordinator

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      Cover Work

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      Cover Image

      Abhinash Sahu

      About the Author

      Sanjeev Jaiswal is a computer graduate with four years of industrial experience and more than six years of web development experience. He extensively uses Perl and GNU/Linux for his day-to-day work and also teaches Drupal and WordPress CMS to bloggers. He has worked closely with major clients such as CSC, IBM, and Motorola mobility.

      Sanjeev loves teaching technical functionalities to engineering students and IT professionals and has been teaching since 2008. He founded AlienCoders (http://www.aliencoders.com)based on the principle of learning through sharing for Computer Science students and IT professionals in 2010, which became a huge hit in India among engineering students.

      He usually uploads technical videos to YouTube on his channel AlienCoders. Sanjeev has a huge fan base on his site and on YouTube because of his simple but effective way of teaching and his philanthropic nature toward students.

      I would like to thank my parents for their moral support while writing these recipes till late into the night. I would also like to express deep thanks and gratitude to my best friend Ritesh Kamal, without whose efforts this book would quite possibly not have happened.

      I would also like to thank all the mentors, friends, and supporters I've

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