Blogs loading slowly

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  dwoog · Member · Jun 1, 2009 at 12:14 am

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  I have 2 blogs: http://06880danwoog.com and http://staplessoccer.com. When I’m previewing a post, publishing or visiting my blogs, they load VERY slowly. This is true with my home computer, and one I use at work. Other non-Wordpress websites don’t seem to take as long. Does anyone else have the same problem? Any thoughts?

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  dwoog · Member · Jun 1, 2009 at 12:19 am

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  Sorry: http://staplessoccer.wordpress.com is the 2nd blog referenced above.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 1, 2009 at 1:31 am

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  First, your blog is image intensive so I would suggest reducing the number of posts that show on the blog pages (settings > reading).

  Secondly, your images could use a little more optimization. I checked several and they are around 174k – ish. I would suggest you target no more than 75k as a file size. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/optimise-your-images/

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  tellyworth · Staff · Jun 1, 2009 at 8:05 am

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  tsp is right – the front page of staplessoccer.com is about 2.5 MB, which is about a 20 second page load time on an average broadband connection.

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  dwoog · Member · Jun 1, 2009 at 12:26 pm

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  THANKS for the quick feedback!