Acknowledgments
Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization
Many people selflessly contributed their time and expertise to this book. Nearly everyone that I contacted shared their insights with me and answered my questions. It is this spirit of cooperation that makes the Internet such a wonderful place to work, and an ideal environment to write this type of book. Below you’ll find the people and sites I list in the acknowledgements of the book, plus some others who helped out along the way. Thanks to everyone.
General
- Prof. Panos Papalambros – Optimization professor
- Bob Peyser – Business partner
- Dan Ragle – internet.com
- Scott Clark – internet.com
- Tammie Bruneau – Graphic artist
- Bradley Glonka – System administrator
- Lou Rosenfeld – Book author
- Wendy Peck – Book author
WebReference Content Providers
- Peter Belesis – DHTML
- Michael Claßen – XML
- Jonathan Eisenzopf – Perl
- Daniel Giordan – Graphics
- Nick Heinle – JavaScript
- Dmitry Kirsanov – Design (kirsanov.com)
- Mark Merkow – ECommerce
- Wendy Peck – Graphics (wpeck.com)
- Stephanos Piperoglou – HTML & CSS (piperoglou.com)
- Robert Polevoi – 3D Graphics and Animation
- Yehuda and Tomer Shiran – JavaScript
- Richard Wiggins – Internet (richardwiggins.com)
Part I: The Psychology of Performance
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D. – Flow/interview
- Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. – Usability/Foreword
- Chris Roast, Ph.D. – Attunability
- Benjamin Schneiderman, Ph.D. – Response time/interview
- Marceli Wein, Ph.D. – Response time
- Ken Winter, Ph.D. – Flow
Part II: Optimizing Markup: HTML and XHTML
- Travis Anton – Graphics & Mizer (now SpaceAgent)
- Bob Clary – Netscape.com
- Bradley Glonka – System administrator
- Michael Schröpl – (X)HTML compression
- Johannes Selbach – VSE Web Site Turbo, Google ranking study
- Jeffrey Zeldman – Standards, and A List Apart
Part III: DHTML Optimization: CSS and JavaScript
- Douglas Bagnall – 5K chess game
- John Bandhauer and Robert Ginda – Venkman profiler
- Peter Belesis – DHTML menus
- Aaron Boodman – DHTML
- Lon Boonen – JavaScript and code
- Stuart Butterfield – The 5K
- Robert Chandler – JavaScript compression
- Eric Costello – The 5K
- Kwon Ekstrom – CSS
- Mike Hall – DHTML Menus
- Bob Ippolito – JavaScript
- Jim Ley – The JavaScript FAQ
- Thomas Loo – JavaScript compression
- Eric Meyer – CSS
- Chris Nott – JavaScript
- Michel Plungjan – JavaScript
- Scott Porter – JavaScript and code
- Stuart Robertson – CSS
- Christopher Schmitt – CSS
- Michael Schröpl – JavaScript compression
- Yehuda and Tomer Shiran – JavaScript
Part IV: Graphics and Multimedia Optimization
- Toyin Akinmusuru – Flash
- Jack Berlin and Jim Bean – JPEG
- Chuck Duff – Graphics
- Greg Roelofs – PNG
Part V: Search Engine Optimization
- Fredrick Marckini – SEO / case study
- Danny Sullivan – SEO
- Bert Van Kets – SEO / tech edits
Part VI: Advanced Optimization Techniques
- Ralf Engelschall – mod_rewrite
- Bradley Glonka – System administrator
- Chuck Hagenbuch – PHP sniffing
- Peter Hegedus – internet.com
- Richard Litofsky – BrowserHawk, browser sniffing with JSP
- Darrell King – PHP sniffing
- Dan Ragle – internet.com
- Igor Sysoev – mod_deflate
Final Thanks
- Laura Loveall and Sarah Kearns – Development Editors, New Riders
- Elise Walter – Acquisitions Editor, New Riders
- Bert Van Kets – Tech Editor
- Porter Glendinning – Tech Editor
- Peggy Morgan – Unofficial Editor
- Wendy Peck – Unofficial Editor
- Jason Wolf – Multimedia chapter and Apple Case study contributing author
- Konstantin Balashov – Compression chapter contributing author, co-wrote Graphics chapter
- John and Jean King – Parents