Does Your Blog Load Slow?

Basil from basil’s blog has a post that hits a little close to home for me. Speeding Up Your Blog (Revisited)

I guess I am busted. Here is a list of basil’s suggestions on how to get your blog to load faster. Check out how many suggestions I have violated:

1. Graphics (love graphics and I hate how slow my blog loads, some things got to give.)
2. Blogrolls (I have a lot of blogrolls on Passionate America. Not sure what I should do about the problem.)
3. Other Third Party Code (The Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem, check; Sitemeter, check; Google Ads, check; Amazon.com Ads, check)
4. Tables (My new blog template uses table to make the header, sidebars, and main column of my blog. Looks like I need a new template)
5. Order In The Blog (I’m not really sure about this one, but it is possible that my blog loads in the wrong order.)

Looks like I have a lot of work to do to fix the slow loading of Passionate America. I’d like to find a new template that works well on Blogger, has a sidebar on the left and the right, and does not use tables to make the sidebars. Have any suggestions?

Update: I’m looking for ways to fix the slow loading here at Passionate America. I’ll be working on the blog template of this blog for most of the day. If you have any suggestions on how I can improve the look and page loading time of this blog please leave a comment and I will consider your suggestion.

Update #2: Well I redesigned Passionate America so it will load faster. I think it loads a lot faster. It still loads TTLB Ecosystem stats and Blogrolling blogrolls a little slow, but over all it is much faster. Thanks basil.