I have a website at www.TheLoveQuilt.com , and I have recently been told by a number of people that it loads fairly slow, and that it needs to quicken. I have These things going for me: 1. I am hosting my site at hostgator.com . 2. I have insalled and enabled the "wp cache" plugin for the site (obviously wing run by wordpress) What is the problem with my loading speed? I personally don't have a problem with the speed, but that might be because I have a mac. Do I just have TOO much content/images on my homepage, or what? Can that be fixed? I am willing to pay someone to change or integrate as many things as they can to speed up my site. I will only pay if there is an improvement. (even a slight one)
I notice the code of your page has script to resize the images. Are you hosting full size versions on the server and making the page resize them for each box? Seems like that could eat up load time there. Also, have you considered putting less blocks on a page and adding additional pages? Finally, and this one you might not be able to do anything about, there is a lot of white space in your code. Eliminating some of that will help reduce load times.
One problem I see that a lot of people make with wordpress sites, especially on shared hosting, is that they have nine million plugins that they aren't using. I don't know how many you have, but if you do have alot installed and aren't using them, i would recommend deleting them... that helps as well, and might save you from having to hire someone. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-plugins-slow-wordpress
The problem is you've got like a gazillion of non optimized images loaded at page load - that's the first thing you should optimize. Second I suggest on demand loading with ajax - for example when someone hovers over post, it takes a second or two to load images just of that post. I can help you with that, but I'm really busy these days. How much are you willing to pay?
Simple method for loading the page faster is to divide the whole page content in Paging or sliding so It will decrease the Image per page as well as page length will also decrease.You can use threading to get data faster as well as.