With Google Caffeine being released next year, there is talk among the search engine magazines about how Google may start penalizing websites in the search engine rankings if they have poor pageload times compared to their peers. This means if you were to place a top 5 listing on Google Search you could lose this ranking if your blog has a poor page load performance.

The fact is, even as the internet continues to get more feature rich, bandwidth and broadband can’t keep up fast enough. Mobile devices still average around 1.5 Mbps, and there are still millions of people using dial up. With websites containing often 1mb or more of images this can be up to a minute long pageload for a single website if you are still using dial up modems.

My own blog suffers from pageload performance issues and this is due to many of the social submission plugins, and various external js calls made from my blog. I am in the process of tuning my blog to be more efficient and in doing so I found these three wordpress plug-ins that greatly improve some of your blogs footprint.

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