For those people that don't want to buy Even Faster Web Sites, I've written a summary of each of my chapters. (I don't summarize the guest chapters.) I also did this for High Performance Web Sites over on the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog, and list those here, as well. One note: these blog posts are summaries of the book chapters, adding up to less than 20% of the content found in the books. The blog posts provide a great overview, but you'll still want to read the books to get the full story.

Even Faster Web Sites blog posts

1. Understanding Ajax Performance by Doug Crockford
2. Creating Responsive Web Applications by Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer
3. Splitting the Initial Payload
4. Loading Scripts Without Blocking
5. Coupling Asynchronous Scripts
6. Positioning Inline Scripts
7. Writing Efficient JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas
8. Scaling with Comet by Dylan Schiemann
9. Going Beyond Gzipping by Tony Gentilcore
10. Optimizing Images by Stoyan Stefanov & Nicole Sullivan
11. Sharding Dominant Domains
12. Flushing the Document Early
13. Using Iframes Sparingly
14. Simplifying CSS Selectors

High Performance Web Sites blog posts

1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put Stylesheets at the Top
6. Put Scripts at the Bottom
7. Avoid CSS Expressions
8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
9. Reduce DNS Lookups
10. Minify JavaScript
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags
14. Make Ajax Cacheable