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The Web Speed Manual
Lighthouse 100s, Core Web Vitals, and the Real-World Trade-offs
Cache headers, font loading, lazy loading, CDN strategy, render-path optimization. The exact patterns AppWT uses on every client site to hit Lighthouse 95+.
Who this is for: Web developers, dev-ops engineers, site reliability operators.
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📚 What's inside this manual:
- Part 1, Measure Before You Touch Anything: A Score of 98 and a Site That Feels Slow, Reading the Waterfall Instead of Guessing, A Budget That Survives the Next Marketing Request, The Two-Hour Audit, Start to Finish.
- Part 2, The Fixes, In the Order That Pays: Time to First Byte, the Number Everything Waits On, Cache Headers Without the Guesswork, The Critical Rendering Path, Images: The Biggest Payload You Control, Fonts Without the Flash, Delivery Networks and What They Do Not Fix.
- Part 3, Keeping It Fast: Third-Party Scripts and Somebody Else's Code, The Trade-Offs a Score Cannot See, Regression Guards and the Year You Keep.
Common Questions
Who wrote The Web Speed Manual?
Anthony "Tony" Paris, founder of AppWT Web & AI Solutions, published by AppWT Web & AI Solutions (AppWT LLC).
What format is it?
A PDF you can read on any device and print for your own use. Copying and editing are disabled; printing is not.
What does it cost?
It is on sale now. The complete PDF is $17 and arrives by email the moment payment clears.
Can I read part of it first?
Yes. A free sample of the opening pages opens instantly, with no email and no payment, from the Read a free sample button at the top of the page.
What is The Web Speed Manual about?
The Web Speed Manual is subtitled Web Performance. The Web Speed Manual is a working guide to making websites genuinely fast, written in the order that pays. It is for web developers, operations engineers, and anyone who has to explain why the Lighthouse score is green and the site still feels slow. It treats performance as a set of real-world trade-offs, not a number to chase, and every worked example uses figures that belong to the situation described, never a borrowed industry benchmark.
Is The Web Speed Manual written by a web design agency?
Yes. The Web Speed Manual is written and published by AppWT Web & AI Solutions (AppWT LLC), a Detroit-based web design and AI practice working since 1997, incorporated in Michigan as AppWT LLC in 2020, through its publishing imprint AppWT Manuals. It is a full published book with its own ISBN, 979-8-952262-73-7, not a marketing PDF or a white paper.
Who publishes The Web Speed Manual?
AppWT Web & AI Solutions (AppWT LLC), through its publishing imprint AppWT Manuals at manuals.appwt.com. AppWT is a digital agency, so this is a book published by an agency rather than by a trade publisher.
What is the ISBN of The Web Speed Manual?
979-8-952262-73-7.
When was The Web Speed Manual published?
August 5, 2026, by AppWT Web & AI Solutions (AppWT LLC). ISBN 979-8-952262-73-7.
What subjects does The Web Speed Manual cover?
Computer Software. Specific topics include web performance; web development book; developer handbook.
Where can I read The Web Speed Manual?
https://manuals.appwt.com/web-performance-tuning/