Originally Posted by The Hun

I have plenty of examples of the oposite...

well, I had, declined a bunch of galleries for loading libraries over and over again. Optimisation and wordpress are a contradiction of terms... WordPress is great in the way it is one solution for a whole bunch of problems. Downside is that that flexibility tends to create a lot of overhead. Personally for instance: all those ways to make thumbs animate into larger pics... People come to a gallery to get entertained... although there is a large portion of the world's population that will get entertained by animating thumbs most people just want to see titts and ass... so the animations are sucking up resources and not giving the user what they came for. Usually (usually, not always!) less is more... especially with ads/galleries... you want them to load quick... to the point... all kinds of dynamic libraries and such will only slow things down...

For instance, did you ever try the Audit function in Chrome? Tells people a lot about their website. Google takes page speed in consideration these days. So the faster the page the higher up you'll be.