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Web Frontend High Performance Tuning
Mitsunori Kubota
Summary
A Japanese-language guide to tuning websites and web applications for speed, by Mitsunori Kubota. It opens from the premise that rich websites and applications keep multiplying without limit, driving ever-growing demand for making them faster. Rather than offering quick fixes, the book aims to build the knowledge and skill to address performance properly: starting from how browsers render pages, moving through concrete responses to specific problems, and closing with design fundamentals for looking ahead, all in service of durable, not stopgap, performance improvement.
Target Readers
- People who want to speed up a website in order to drive outcomes such as more page views
- People who want to speed up a web application in order to raise user satisfaction
- Readers who want to learn frontend tuning from the fundamentals of how browsers render pages
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Colophon
- Publisher
- Gijutsu-Hyohron
- ISBN
- 978-4774189673
- Published
- May 2017
- List price
- ¥2,948incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon
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