Optimizing for a Quicker Load

Hey guys,

I am in need of some help. Basically, I own www.sims3fanatics.com and it's getting quite popular. One thing that is holding me back and people is the fact that it takes ages for pages to load.

Please can you take a look at what is wrong and see if you can help - it's running on Wordpress but I don't think that's it. I have contacted my host and they can't seem to help so please let me know of anything that could be useful.

Thanks!

 

Website was unable to load even on optimized
Firefox v3.5.5, so can u write down more tech.
info about currently used ads/blocks/modules?
Which host/plan u're using, count of daily visits?

 

Your website so nice bro!
i like the way your web presentation.
But you are right, it takes time to load.
I try to advise but nothing i can say because it already simple website..

 

I can't even get the website to load. But once it does, it comes up fine and quick. I'm thinking it's more of a server issue. What's the load on this server? It may be overloaded.

edit: Whoa, the front page is over a meg in size. That's huge. Half of that is for 4 images:

http://www.sims3fanatics.com/wp-content/themes/s3f/images/S3F-logo.png
http://www.sims3fanatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Daily_Finds-07_11.jpg
http://www.sims3fanatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Thumnail_1.jpg
http://www.sims3fanatics.com/wp-content/themes/s3f/images/bg.jpg

Have to ask if you think they're worth it or do you think you can get away with thumbnails?

You can head over here and plug in your url for details:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

 

use wp super cache and cdn tools, these plugins will make your site load faster

 

Cheers for the help guys, I will try a few things and let you all know how it goes.