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Even Faster Web Sites--New from O'Reilly
Performance Best Practices for Web Developers

Sebastopol, CA--Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web
applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of
Ajax. In his newest book, "Even Faster Web Sites," (O'Reilly, US $34.99), Steve Souders, web
performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques
to help you optimize your site's performance.

Souders' previous book, the bestselling "High Performance Web Sites," shocked the web development
world by revealing that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side. In
"Even Faster Web Sites," Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic
advice for improving your site's performance in three critical categories:

* JavaScript: Get advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating
responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more.
* Network: Learn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of
quality, and use chunked encoding to render pages faster.
* Browser: Discover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques.

Speed is essential for today's rich media web sites and Web 2.0 applications. With "Even Faster Web
Sites," you'll learn how to shave precious seconds off your sites' load times and make them respond
even faster.

The book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith,
Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.

For a review copy or more information please email kathrynb@oreilly.com. Please include your
delivery address and contact information.

Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His books High
Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites explain his best practices for performance along
with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the
performance analysis extension to Firebug with more than 1 million downloads. He serves as co-chair
of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference sponsored by O'Reilly. He frequently
speaks at such conferences as OSCON, Rich Web Experience, Web 2.0 Expo, and The Ajax Experience.

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Even Faster Web Sites
Steve Souders
ISBN 10: 9780596522308, 254 pages, Book Price: $34.99 USD, £26.99 GBP
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