Preface
Well before I ever entertained the notion of writing a book, the idea that websites ought to be fast was a high priority in all my projects. In my humble opinion, slow websites are not a mere inconvenience. They are a critical sort of user experience problem. Until a website loads, no user experience exists. The longer it takes for a site to load, the more this absence is felt by the user.
When I proposed this book to Manning in 2015, I was hardly the first to write on the topic of web performance. Many authors before me had written in this space, and I knew that I would be standing on the shoulders of giants. My goal with Web Performance in Action was to provide a modern guide for today’s web developers that would give them the knowledge ...
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