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Book Description

Summary

Fast ASP.NET Websites delivers just what it promises—practical, hands-on guidance to create faster, more efficient ASP.NET sites and applications. This book offers step-by-step .NET-specific examples showing you how to apply classic page optimization tips, ASP.NET-specific techniques, and ways to leverage new HTML5 features.

About the Technology

There’s a real cost to inefficient HTTP requests, overloaded data streams, and bulky scripts. Server throughput is a precious commodity, and seconds—even tiny fractions of a second—can seem like an eternity while a visitor waits for your site to load. As an ASP.NET developer, there are dozens of techniques you can apply immediately to make your sites and applications faster. You’ll find them here.

About this Book

Fast ASP.NET Websites delivers just what it promises—practical, hands-on guidance to create faster, more efficient ASP.NET sites and applications. This book offers step-by-step .NET-specific examples showing you how to apply classic page optimization tips, ASP.NET-specific techniques, and ways to leverage new HTML5 features.

Readers should be familiar with basic HTML, CSS, and ASP.NET concepts.

What’s Inside

  • Drastically improved response times

  • Tips for Webforms and ASP.NET MVC sites

  • Optimizing existing pages

  • .NET-specific examples

About the Authors

Dean Hume is a software developer and blogger based in the U.K. A passionate techie, he created the ASP.NET HTML5 toolkit and blogs regularly about web performance at www.deanhume.com.

Table of Contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Brief Table of Contents
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. About this Book
  7. Part 1. Defining performance
    1. Chapter 1. High-speed websites
    2. Chapter 2. First steps toward a faster website
  8. Part 2. General performance best practices
    1. Chapter 3. Compression
    2. Chapter 4. Caching: The sell-by date
    3. Chapter 5. Minifying and bundling static files
    4. Chapter 6. HTML optimization tips
    5. Chapter 7. Image optimization
    6. Chapter 8. ETags
    7. Chapter 9. Content Delivery Networks
  9. Part 3. ASP.NET–specific techniques
    1. Chapter 10. Tweaking ASP.NET MVC performance
    2. Chapter 11. Tweaking ASP.NET Web Forms performance
    3. Chapter 12. Data caching
  10. Appendix. Appendix
  11. Index
  12. List of Figures
  13. List of Tables
  14. List of Listings