hmmm yea I tried what I indicated and I tried a few things in that blog and still don't really notice any significant changes in speed.

I mean basic pages that only have an html/text element have like 250 to 300 kb footprint on the page....
Where as before it was 19 kb's

http://www.cyberfetishdolls.com/evenflo/Bio/tabid/162/Default.aspx
vs
http://www.djevenflo.com/FloPages/bio.html

It seems to be loading a fairly excessive amount of JS and other files for such a simple page.
The only thing I can thing is to switch out the DNN menu provider and hope that that has some benefit.....

But is that just how DNN is? I mean do you just have to expect that all DNN sites are going to have a 250 KB to 400 kb payload?
 

Well I think if it would just gzip everything like i told it to that might resolve the issue :-/

I have Qwest DSL

When I load the non DNN site the page load takes about 433 ms

When I load the DNN site the page load takes about 6.97 seconds
Occasionaly it appears to cache and the load takes about 3 seconds

I think it might be taking so long cause it has to download like 18 different files

But on fairly random occasions it just takes 2.5 seconds for every page because it doesn't send across as many files (not sure why)

so I mean when I'm seeing a 7 second vs 0.5 second difference in load time of a single page with basic text
that's a fairly noticeable and annoying difference

see what I'm also trying to understand is the randomness in speed differences...

:-/
Last night
http://www.djevenflo.com/
was taking about 1 second per page load and only loading 30 KB's a page

but this morning every page is taking 8 to 9 seconds and loading about 300 KB's a page

In the first instance there was only 2 requests being made but now with the longer page loads it's making 15 to 16 page requests with each page I navigate...

it seems fairly random weather it does one or the other :(