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Hi people. I'm the site owner. Honestly, I was not expecting to have so many visits at the beginning. I'm keeping it monitored to see if the current caching parameters are good enough. The site is on a shared hosting and I might contact the hosting provider to move it to less crowded server.

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Quick tip: Merge your CSS and JS. It's killing your page load time: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/131223_MJ_Q59/

Your first paint is coming it at around 1.8s. You could probably get that under the 1s mark just by consolidating your resources. This is even more important when dealing with a library like Angular.

Thanks for the tip. I'll see what I can do. Most of the CSS and JS come from the WordPress theme and plugins actually.

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