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I think for the Bills.com widget, you can go into the code and add the image dimensions to each image.  That will speed up the page a bit.  You could possibly host the images yourself as well.

I think I found out that trick using either Yslow or Page Speed.

Post edited 10:10 pm – May 21, 2011 by JT_McGee

I don't know anything about these widgets.

However, I just moved MoneyMamba to my VPS and 

1) deleted inactive plugins (they still load, apparently)

2) changed setting to "serve cached pages to visitors" in WPSuperCache

3) rejoiced at how painfully easy the c-c-c-c-ombo of moving the site to my VPS (which is 10x faster than the shared hosting account I had it on…free isn't always good!) and dialing up WPSuperCache was for reducing loading times.

VPS is in a Softlayer datacenter (they're amazing), but still, it shouldn't have made _that_ much of a difference.  I need to put WPSuperCache in my "must remember to do with new sites" list when I throw stuff online.

I'm looking for a plug-in (I know its out there!) to allow me to order loading of other plugins. Tweetmeme is getting on my nerves, so I want to put it at the end of the loading cycle.  We'll see how that pans out.  If anyone knows what it's called, holler!

I'm having serious problems with page-load speed also. In the last few days the site simply fails to load. Not good. I'm re-building the site this weekend, beginning with a new theme, fewer wigits, etc. I create all my images, and have been saving them as PNG. Simply switching to JPG wll decrease the system demands. So much to do.

What's the bench mark? What tool do you use and what is considered good?

I know that from Web Master Tools that the time has decreased for me after simply moving to hostgator over my previous host provider.