So we have to start somewhere and my pretty normal plain vanilla WordPress install rates as:

• Google pagespeed tool : Page Speed Score of 27 (out of 100)
• Yslow: Grade B Overall performance score 80 Ruleset applied: YSlow(V2)

My total weight in Yslow is 340.8K

1 HTML/Text 5.2K
4 JavaScript File 261.7K
2 Stylesheet File 18.4K
4 CSS Image 46.5K
2 Image 1.2K
1 Favicon 0.2K
3 undefined 7.3K

Which means I forgot to switch to a minified version of jQuery when i made the site live. That is an easy one. Switching to minified jQuery 91.7kb loses me 156.3kb.

Making me a much better total weight of 186.9K

So rerunning those tests I now get a more respectable

• Google pagespeed tool : Page Speed Score of 61 (out of 100)
• Yslow: Grade B Overall performance score 80 Ruleset applied: YSlow(V2)

To be continued … there is a lot more