Featuring: Steve Souders, Stanford Lecturer and Google Web Performance Guru
People love fast web sites, but up until now developers have been focusing on the wrong area. Backend (web server, database, etc.) performance is important for reducing hardware costs and improving efficiency, but for most pages 80% of the load time is spent on the frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, iframes, and others). Steve Souders, who works at Google on web performance, will introduce best practices for making web pages faster, provide case studies from top web sites, and introduce the tools he uses for researching performance. In addition to learning how to improve web performance, students will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of how the Internet works including DNS, HTTP, and browsers.