
Pro JavaScript Performance
Monitoring and Visualization
Tom Barker(Author)
APress
Published on 1. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 220 pages
978-1-4302-4749-4 (ISBN)
Description
Performance is a hugely important area of web development. If your site runs slowly, users are going to leave, and the problem only grows as your site gets more popular. Pro JavaScript Performance gives you the tools you need to keep your sites smooth and responsive no matter how many users you have.
Best practices are changing or becoming redefined continually because of changes and optimizations at the interpreter level, and differences in system configuration, and network speeds. This is exacerbated by the quickened release schedule that most browsers have adopted. Just as important as following best practices is the ability to measure your own performance, so that you can adjust as times change, and so that you can note the subtle nuances in your own code and define your own best practices by your own observations.
This book gives you the tools to observe and track the performance of your web applications over time from multiple perspectives, so that you are always aware of, and can fix, all aspects of your performance.
More details
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Target group
Popular/general
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XI, 220 p.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4302-4749-4 (9781430247494)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4302-4750-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
12/2012
APress
€26.99
Available for download
Person
Tom Barker is an engineer, a professor and an author. Currently he is Sr Manager of Web Development at Comcast, and an instructor at Philadelphia University. He has authored several books on web development including Pro JavaScript Performance: Monitoring and Visualization, and Pro Data Visualization with JavaScript and R.
Content
* What Is Performance? * Tools and Technology to Measure and Impact Performance * WPTRunner-Automated Performance Monitoring and Visualization with WebPagetest * perfLogger-JavaScript Benchmarking and Logging * Looking Forward, A Standard for Performance * Web Performance Optimizations * Runtime Performance * Balancing Performance with Software Engineering Best Practices and Running in Production