much smaller. There are a few ways to fix this, my first choice will be to add a minify plugin to my site which will combine all my JS files into a single, smaller load. Load Time Analysis The second portion of Pingdom Tools worth looking at to increase your site speed is the Load Time Analysis which will allow you to view an easy breakdown of all areas of your page load. You'll notice for example that less than half of the content on my homepage comes from thisismyurl.com, the balance from other websites and services. Google Maps accounts for over 20% of the time spent loading my website, simply replacing the Google map with a graphical map would decrease my load times by 20%. For me, the answer was to find a graphic of the same area (I located one on a website and created my own version) and recreate it to highlight the same area the map did, while saving myself significant load time. I also noticed that 45% of the load time on my site is being used to load images, but the majority of these images are also coming from external services associated with the Google map and Facebook comments which had no reason to load on the homepage so I simply wrapped an is_single() check around the header code to ensure it only loads on the proper pages. The Results Overall, I've lowered the load time of my homepage from 3.5 seconds to 2.2