Speed is money--and increasing web performance can have a significant bottom line impact. This practical guide introduces a new model for thinking about end-to-end performance that everyone, from developers to engineers and analyst, can readily understand. Whether you want to write faster applications, or ensure site is fast all the time, you'll discover how to achieve performance in a new way. Learn how to identify, prioritize, and analyze problems, and then--most importantly--how to optimize performance.Learn how to test web pages and understand the resultsDetermine if you have performance problems and how to diagnose themUse common performance tools such as Keynote and GomezExplore web performance challenges outside of the USDives into mobile web performanceUnderstand how to set service-level agreements, both internally and with third partiesSet up and use a content delivery network, and learn how it worksLearn how to design up front for performance

Author Biography

Daniel Austin is Founder and CEO of GRIN Technologies, Inc., a technology research and development firm in Silicon Valley. In a past life, he's worked for organizations such as CERN, NASA, W3C, Sun, PayPal, and Yahoo! in pursuit of making the Internet faster and smarter. He lives in Northern California.