As long as there's been a Web, people have been trying to make it
faster. The maturation of the Web has meant more users, more data, more
features, and consequently longer waits on the Web. Improved performance
has become a critical factor in determining the usability of the Web in
general and of individual sites in particular.Web Performance Tuning,
2nd Edition is about getting the best possible performance from the
Web. This book isn't just about tuning web server software; it's also
about streamlining web content, getting optimal performance from a
browser, tuning both client and server hardware, and maximizing the
capacity of the network itself.Web Performance Tuning hits the ground
running, giving concrete advice for quick results -- the "blunt
instruments" for improving crippled performance right away. The book
then shifts gears to give a conceptual background of the principles of
computing performance. The latter half of the book examines each element
of a web transaction -- from client to network to server -- to find the
weak links in the chain and show how to strengthen them.In this second
edition, the book has been significantly expanded to include:
In addition, the book includes many more examples and graphs of
real-world performance problems and their solutions, and has been
updated for Java 2.This book is for anyone who has waited too long for a
web page to display, or watched the servers they manage slow to a crawl.
It's about making the Web more usable for everyone.
