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Index
Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed
Dedication
Praise for Designing for Performance
Foreword by Steve Souders
Foreword by Randy J. Hunt
Preface
How This Book Is Organized
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
1. Performance Is User Experience
Impact on Your Brand
Returning Users
Search Engine Rankings
Impact on Mobile Users
Mobile Networks
Mobile Usage Patterns
Mobile Hardware
Designers’ Impact on Performance
2. The Basics of Page Speed
How Browsers Render Content
Requests
Connections
Page Weight
Perceived Performance
Critical Rendering Path
Jank
Other Impacts on Page Speed
Geography
Network
Browser
3. Optimizing Images
Choosing an Image Format
JPEG
GIF
PNG
Additional Compression
Replacing Image Requests
Sprites
CSS3
Data URIs and Base64-Encoding Images
SVG
Image Planning and Iterating
Schedule Routine Checks
Create Style Guides
Mentor Other Image Creators
4. Optimizing Markup and Styles
Cleaning Your HTML
Divitis
Semantics
Accessibility
Frameworks and Grids
Cleaning Your CSS
Unused Styles
Combine and Condense Styles
Clean Stylesheet Images
Remove Specificity
Optimizing Web Fonts
Creating Repurposable Markup
Style Guides
Additional Markup Considerations
CSS and JavaScript Loading
Minification and gzip
Caching Assets
5. Responsive Web Design
Deliberately Loading Content
Images
Fonts
Approaches
Project Documentation
Mobile First
Measure Everything
6. Measuring and Iterating on Performance
Browser Tools
YSlow
Chrome DevTools
Synthetic Testing
Real User Monitoring
Changes over Time
7. Weighing Aesthetics and Performance
Finding the Balance
Make Performance Part of Your Workflow
Approach New Designs with a Performance Budget
Experiment on Designs with Performance in Mind
8. Changing Culture at Your Organization
Performance Cops and Janitors
Upward Management
Impact on Business Metrics
Experiencing Site Speed
Working with Other Designers and Developers
Educating
Empowering
A. About the Author
B. Designing for Performance
Index
About the Author
Colophon
Copyright
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