Professional Website Performance: Optimizing the Front End and the Back End
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Peter Smith has been a full-time Linux consultant, web developer, and system administrator for more than a decade. His open source projects include modules for Apache and OSCommerce, a cross-platform IRC client, and contributions to The Linux Documentation Project.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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INTRODUCTION xxiii

PART I: FRONT END

CHAPTER 1: A REFRESHER ON WEB BROWSERS 3

CHAPTER 2: UTILIZING CLIENT-SIDE CACHING 23

CHAPTER 3: CONTENT COMPRESSION 39

CHAPTER 4: KEEPING THE SIZE DOWN WITH MINIFICATION 53

CHAPTER 5: OPTIMIZING WEB GRAPHICS AND CSS 71

CHAPTER 6: JAVASCRIPT, THE DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL, AND AJAX 111

PART II: BACK END

CHAPTER 7: WORKING WITH WEB SERVERS 141

CHAPTER 8: TUNING MYSQL 193

CHAPTER 9: MYSQL IN THE NETWORK 255

CHAPTER 10: UTILIZING NOSQL SOLUTIONS 309

CHAPTER 11: WORKING WITH SECURE SOCKETS LAYER (SSL) 359

CHAPTER 12: OPTIMIZING PHP 375

PART III: APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A: TCP PERFORMANCE 405

APPENDIX B: DESIGNING FOR MOBILE PLATFORMS 409

APPENDIX C: COMPRESSION 417

INDEX 427

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