UI Performance - Maximizing Page Load Efficiency

The Yahoo Performance Team has made a ton of great UI performance tuning information available, both online and in two books, "High Performance Web Sites" and the recently released followup "Even Faster Web Sites".

The Grails UI-Performance plugin implements many of these best practices, including compressing and minifying static and dynamic content, aggressive caching, bundling files, creating image sprites and more. We'll look at the wrong way to send content to your users' browsers and the right way, and use YSlow to measure the improvements along the way. Your users will appreciate the zippier response times, and you'll appreciate the decreased server load.

About Burt Beckwith

Burt Beckwith has been a software developer for 15 years, most of that as a JVM developer, and for the last five years working with Grails and Groovy. He is a core developer on the Grails team at SpringSource, and has created over 40 Grails plugins. Burt is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups where he shares his passion for Grails and other Groovy-based technologies, in particular those that are related to persistence, security, and performance. He is the author of "Programming Grails" and blogs at http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/

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