Speed Up Your Site (Buy it at Amazon.com), by Andrew King, is a great addition to any web developers library. I heartily recommend it for the depth and breadth of the topics covered. This is another great book in the catalog of New Riders collection of programming and web development books.

By using the techniques in this book I have been able to really speed up the client side code for multiple projects and have gotten great feedback from users. The section of JavaScript optimization alone is worth the price of the book. Areas I have yet to explore in optimization include graphics and Flash work. I don’t do any Flash, but am considering trying that out in the future (for some things) and the graphics that I use on sites are often pretty sparse to help increase load speeds. Kudos to Andy for the great book that will be off the shelf until it’s completely committed to memory.