Introduction to Web Development using HTML 5
By: Kris Jamsa, Ph.D.

Chapter 15: Webpage Optimization

This chapter examines several steps you can take to improve your website’s performance and reduce the amount of time users must wait for a page to load. By the time you finish this chapter, you will understand the following key concepts:

● How to test your webpage performance
● How browser and server interactions affect performance
● How to design your site’s home page to reduce HTTP-based file requests
● What impact image file size and resolution have on download times
● How to reduce JavaScript download overhead by obfuscating your code
● How using multiple servers for different resource types may load-balance resource requests
● How to improve download performance for text-based content by directing the server to compress the content using gzip
● How to improve download performance by combining external references files

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TestSpeed.html
LargeImage.html
SmallImage.html
ImageGallery.html
SameServer.html
MultipleServers.html
NeverChanges.html