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 is a Java and Groovy developer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including biotech, travel, e-learning, social networking, and financial services. For the past three years he's been working with Grails and Groovy full-time. Along the way he's created over fifteen Grails plugins and made significant contributions to several others. He was the technical editor for Grails in Action.

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