Den Odell

In this chapter, we will look at how to make your web page come to life, ready for your visitors to use in their web browser, as quickly as possible. Studies have shown that users don’t notice good performance, but they do feel hurt by poor performance. People expect their web sites to load as soon as they make a request for it. Why should we give them any less of an experience than they expect? The key here is efficiency—getting the most data downloaded to the browser in the quickest time.