Hello ChicagoMusicGuide,
Thanks for your question regarding page load time and site optimization. Please follow the site optimization technique like reduce page size, use cache plugin, Removing unwanted plugin, Empty Trash, Reduce Post Revisions/Drafts/Spam/Pingbacks and Trackbacks,Optimize Your Images for the Web, Enable Gzip Compression etc. This help to increase the load time of your site. Hope, this technique is really helpful for you.
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