Performance Tools
Because every second—every kilobyte—matters
About the course
Performance simply matters. Technology may allow us to “go bigger”, but maybe not necessarily be better when it comes to performance. Now is the time to utilize the amazing tools that are available for making websites faster, and to learn how to improve user experience and satisfaction.
This is a practical collection of tutorials on some of the most popular and powerful website performance tools available. It’s packed with useful, real world hints and tips that you can use on your sites today. It contains:
- 23 Development Tools for Boosting Website Performance by Ahmed Bouchefra
- Improving Page Load Performance: Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix by Tonino Jankov
- PHP-FPM Tuning: Using pm static for Max Performance by Hayden James
- Optimization Auditing: A Deep Dive into Chrome's Dev Console by Ahmed Bouchefra
- Performance Auditing: A Firefox Developer Tools Deep Dive by Ahmed Bouchefra
- Web App Performance Testing with Siege: Plan, Test, Learn by Zoran Antolovic
This book is for all developers whio wish to build sites and apps that run faster. It covers a range of performance tools; some familiarity with web performance terms and techniques is assumed.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: 23 Development Tools for Boosting Website Performance
Chapter 2: Improving Page Load Performance: Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix
Chapter 3: PHP-FPM Tuning: Using pm static for Max Performance
Chapter 4: Optimization Auditing: A Deep Dive into Chrome's Dev Console
Chapter 5: Performance Auditing: A Firefox Developer Tools Deep Dive
Chapter 6: Web App Performance Testing with Siege: Plan, Test, Learn