Tim Kadlec

Provides information on building responsive Web sites for a variety of devices and platforms.

Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web

Implementing Responsive Design

Mike McCall

Nick Doyle

Guy Podjarny

Yoav Weiss

Colin Bendell

High-quality images have an amazing power of attraction. Just add some stunning photos and graphics to your website or app and watch your user engagement and conversion numbers climb. It can be tricky, but with this practical guide, you’ll master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. You’ll learn the nuts and bolts of color theory, image formats, storage and management, operations delivery, browser and application behavior, the responsive web, and many other topics. Ideal for developers, this book also provides useful tips, tricks, and practical theory for processing and displaying powerful images that won’t slow down your online product. Explore digital image theory and the different formats available Dive into JPEGs, SVG and vector images, lossless compression, and other formats Use techniques for downloading and rendering images in a browser, and for loading images on mobile devices and cellular networks Examine specific rendering techniques, such as lazy loading, image processing, image consolidation, and responsive images Take responsive images to the next level by using content negotiation between browser and server with the Client Hints HTTP standard Learn how to operationalize your image workflow Contributors include Colin Bendell, Tim Kadlec, Yoav Weiss, Guy Podjarny, Nick Doyle, and Mike McCall from Akamai Technologies.

Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed

High Performance Images

Rachel Andrew

Jens Oliver Meiert

Michael King

Chris Lilley

 Lea Verou

Catalin Rosu

Ian Devlin

 Raph Levien

 Jason Pamental

Simon Hearne

Aleyda Solis

Jamie Indigo

Olu Niyi-Awosusi

Alex Tait

Karolina Szczur

Yana Dimova

Tom Van Goethem

Nurullah Demir

Barry Pollard

Shubhie Panicker

Michael DiBlasio

Christian Liebel

Hemanth HM

Alex Denning

Ahmad Awais

Henri Helvetica

Moritz Firsching

Luca Versari

Sami Boukortt

Jyrki Alakuijala

Rory Hewitt

Raghu Ramakrishnan

Leonardo Zizzamia

Andrew Galloni

Robin Marx

Mike Bishop

The Web Almanac is an annual research project by the web development community to better understand how the web is built and experienced. Industry experts and a team of peer reviewers and data analysts research the state of the web, one chapter at a time, focused in areas of web page composition, user experience, content publishing, and content delivery. The result is a richly detailed report brimming with insightful analysis written by subject matter experts built on a solid foundation of statistics aggregated over millions of top websites.

HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report

The 2020 Web Almanac

Christian Heilmann

Aaron Gustafson

Christopher Murphy

Nicholas C. Zakas

Mat Marquis

Vitaly Friedman

Addy Osmani

Paul Tero

Nishant Kothary

Corey Vilhauer

Harry Roberts

Marko Dugonjić

The book is focused around practical techniques, strategies and approaches. Will feature valuable insights into large-scale projects, adaptive interfaces, customer support, user psychology and typography. Will also uncover smart front-end strategies, obscure back-end techniques and find out what it takes to improve website performance for faster and more robust apps.

New Perspectives on Web Design

Tim Kadlec

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