Website Speed

Francof2842,

Google dislikes a slow site and will crawl your site less. They will also pick up on a high bounce rate which is getting higher due to a slow site.

I saw your speed of 3.5 (it looks pretty good to me). What is your server speed? My server speed alone is in the 3 - 5 second range with an overall page speed of 6 - 8+ seconds.

Note If you pull the server speed from my overall numbers my site would be at about 3.5 which would be acceptable in my case.

From a Google webmaster video they suggested to keep it under 4 sec. As it is "The web should run fast"

As your all sites are self hosted

1) remove unnecessary java script and css
2) Minify all js and css files
3) use cache plugin
4) use free cloudflare.com
5) perform a check and if necessary then optimize loading of css/js parallel
4) use Yahoo smush.it plugin for images

This is give you super fast speed

and in case you find no changes then change your hosting

About step 1,2,5: What would you suggest to a newbie to follow step by step who doesnt know much about coding?