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I recently installed K2 because I was getting very sick and tired of my old theme. I have used K2 before, and went all out with the AJAX that is included in the package. I simply took out all of the javascript includes for the live searching, live commenting, and rolling archives, and these simple tasks made the main page load about 300% faster. I then took out all of the icons, and optimized some recent blog post images and got the total size of the main page to 610 Kb. These new tweaks make it well over 400% faster than the original k2 theme.I like to measure the speed with websiteoptimization.com’s tool.To set a benchmark I like to check the load time on a 14.4K connection. It originally took 250 seconds and now it takes 63 seconds for the main page and 30 seconds for the ‘archives” page to load.All in all I am very, very happy with the results and I believe that I can cut it down even more. A few other factors affected these results such as wp-cache, and the new server setup. Once I get everything down even more I will be sure to share all of my results, tips, and tricks.