Optimize your websites and web apps to boost performance, improve the user experience, and increase conversions

Performance optimization shouldn't be the last item on your checklist while developing a site or app.

Thanks to the rise of mobile networks and handheld devices, website performance is critical. In order to build everything from websites to web apps, you need the right mindset in place when it comes to performance.

This course is designed to teach you how to change the way you view website performance so you can improve the projects you develop.

Create High-Performance Websites and Web Apps that Increase Conversions

Improve User Experience, Load Time, and Conversions
Learn How to Use YSlow to Gauge Performance
Master Minification, Image Optimization, Data Validation, and More
Structure Data with JSON, Web Sockets, and Ajax
Understand Threaded javascript

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Master the Many Ways to Easily and Effectively Improve Website Performance

This course will dive deep into everything you need to know about web performance, including resource loading, animations, JSON, image optimization, minification, and much more.

You'll learn how to achieve an optimized site that leads to higher conversion rates, and you'll know how to analyze the critical parts of a site that need optimization.

From You'll also understand the cost of poor quality code.

Throughout the course, you'll also complete exercises that will test your skills along the way.

Contents and Overview

This course begins by discussing the importance of web performance, including how it relates to a great user experience.

You'll then learn about a convenient browser plugin called YSlow that can effectively test the performance of your site. You'll master YSlow rules and how to implement them.

Then you'll tackle the resources that allow you to optimize images to reduce their size. Plus, you'll understand the best ways to minify javascript and CSS code to reduce download time.

To more deeply understand the inner workings of an optimized and high performance website, you'll master website architecture, data validation, JSON, Ajax, and web sockets.

When ready, you'll move on to resource loading, jsPerf, and more. These skills will help you save time and test javascript performance. You'll even learn how to improve website performance by offloading animations from javascript into CSS.

By the end of this course, you'll be a much more effective website and web app developer. You'll have all of the tools necessary to create and launch a fully optimized site that performs perfectly on modern devices.
These new skills will help you garner the attention clients in need of optimized web products. You'll be able to take your career to the next level because you'll know how to achieve consistently good results while building and coding websites that perform optimally on all devices.