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DrewKaree:
I don't even care if that's the proper phraseology for this thread.

Why do WordPress blogs take so friggen long to load?  Are people who blog actually aware of this, and just don't care, or are they blissfully ignorant?

AtomSmasher:
They seem to load as fast as any other web pages for me  :dunno

rotheblog:
Maybe cue us into some blogs in particular that you think are slow loading...

Wordpress blogs have a lot of plugins, and if the authors don't know how to use those sparingly, that can increase load time of the blog significantly.

DrewKaree:
Dunno if these do it for you guys or not, but here's a few that are dogs for me (one page in particular, but these two in general bog my browser down if I open more than one page)

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/11-asian-girls/

http://atomictrousers.blogspot.com/

Also, ANY blog with a YouTube video on it seems to take forever and a day to load, and once one video is opened, it's as if the browser doesn't want to "release" it, getting progressively slower.  Not nearly as bad a problem on forums such as this, but it still definitely appears as if it's holding on to the video.

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.12 as well.

patrickl:
The Stuff White People like site takes ages for me to load too. Seems like it's loading hundreds of avatars and other pictures and then it stops with an error.

The problem there is that they really make that page too long. It should break after a number of comments. Just like we have pages here. Imagine opening the light bulb thread and getting all the posts on one page. That would take forever to load too.

The Atomictrousers page works fine for me. That looks like an Atom blog actually.

I recently compared several Blogs for an implementation for the Dutch government and we actually settled on Wordpress. I never noticed any speed problems.

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