I like Wordpress. There are times thought that I would really like to pull my hair out over things it does, or rather doesn’t do. Right now I am using the newest version (2.7.1) and I have spent the last two days scouring Google blogsearch looking for the answer to one very simple question

WTF is up with the page load time?

I have tried every trick I can find in the way of cleaning up the header code, I’ve reduced the number of widgets I run, I’ve made sure that the sidebar loads after the page content and yet it still hangs with a blank screen whenever the page is (re)loaded. Once it loads the display time is great – really great but that momentary hang when the browser first reaches out for the other end of the URL is agonizing.

And it’s not just here either as I have seen the same problem on other Wordpress blogs. As well the Admin page loading is even worse with you almost having enough time to go to the kitchen and get a fresh cup of coffee. I don’t know what is causing this problem – maybe it isn’t Wordpress but something that every blog using the software is doing wrong – but either way it sure would be nice to know.

So how about it Wordpress can we please have some kind of word from the mount as to what the hell the problem is?