O'Reilly Master Class: Steve Souders on High Performance Web Sites March 30, 2009

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Want your website to display more quickly? In this Master Class, Steve Souders explains specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time whenusers request pages from your site. Souders collected these best practices at his web performance jobs at Google and Yahoo!, while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. The rules he devised explain how you can improve the performance of the Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images that youve already built into your site.
When website 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.
What will I learn?

How to make your websites25% 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

Is this class for me?

If youre a web developer with working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, this is an ideal class -- especially if you want to improve the performance of your web sites.

Instructor

Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives, and previously served as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. He alsoco-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 OReilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He recently taught High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University.

What should I bring with me?

A laptop computer. Students will receive a copy ofHigh Performance Web Sites, O'Reilly Media, Inc., upon arrival.


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Ticket Info:  

• Early Bird Registration ($50 early bird discount ends March 22nd), $550.00
• Group Registration (register 3+ attendees ), $450.00

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