Fear the blank page. If your website does not load in 4 seconds, 1/3 of your potential customers will close the browser never to give you a second thought. Stop losing those customers!

In The SPDY Book, you will see how to take an existing website and make it fly. You’ll see how a few SPDY additions to your application code can improve real performance by 50% or more—while still keeping your website 100% backwards compatible with older browsers. From the folks at Google, the new SPDY protocol (pronounced “Speedy”) promises this and more. Your websites will be blazingly fast, be more reliable and more secure. This book won’t stop at the surface, but will delve into specific techniques to achieve these results. You also get a deep dive into the protocol itself to better understand how SPDY really works. In an age of ever more fickle web and mobile users, you can’t afford to ignore this breakthrough technology!
Contents and Extracts

Inside this electronic-only eBook, you’ll find:

Introduction
A Case for SPDY
Your First SPDY App (sample)
SPDY and the Real World
SPDY Push
The Basics
Server Push—A Killer Feature (sample)
Control Frames in Depth
SPDY and SSL
SPDY Alternatives
The Future

Appendices:

Installing Express-SPDY
Using Wireshark to Sniff SSL Packets
Google Chrome