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Creating High Performance Web Sites

Master Class: Steve Souders

What will I learn? | About this class | Who should attend? | What's Included? | Instructor

This Master Class has Concluded
The class was presented live March 30, 2009.

Price: $600
Early Bird (register by 3/15): $550
Schedule
March 30, 2009
This 1-day workshop runs from 9am - 5pm.
Location
Mission Bay Conference Center
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
1675 Owens St.
San Francisco, CA 94143
1-866-431-8273
What will I learn?
  • How to make your web sites 25% faster (or more!) by learning how to implement performance best practices with HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and browsers
  • Techniques to optimize websites to attract and retain users, stay ahead of competitors, and offer a better user experience to get more page views and conversions
  • The most effective ways to measure performance, the best performance tools to use, and how to integrate performance into the development process


About this class

When web site response slows, many developers and administrators of high-traffic sites think the problem lies in the web server, the database, or even the hardware. But in his web performance jobs at Google and Yahoo!, Steve Souders discovered that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is due to inefficient web browser activity and the communication between the browser and the server.

In this Master Class, Souders will walk you through the web site optimizing rules he devised while working on sites such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! front page. The rules include adjustments critical to rich web applications, such as making fewer HTTP requests, making JavaScript and CSS external, reducing DNS lookups, and much more. The first 14 rules are outlined in Souders’ bestselling O’Reilly book, High Performance Web Sites, and several more will appear in his forthcoming book, Even Faster Web Sites. In this class, you’ll get hands-on guidance for implementing these best practices.


Who should attend?
  • If you build dynamic web sites, and have working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, this class is a must. It’s especially useful for developers of high-traffic destinations.


What's Included?

Instructor

Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives, and previously served as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. He also co-founded Helix Systems and CoolSync, and worked at General Magic, WhoWhere?, and Lycos. Souders is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug, which has over 700,000 downloads. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O’Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He recently taught High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University.


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Steve Souders: "High Performance Web Sites: 14 Rules for Faster Pages"
 
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