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Regarding the site's speed, looking at the network graph in Chrome's Developer tools it looks like the time to first byte (how quickly it takes for the server to send it's first response back) is ranging anywhere from nearly instantaneous to almost 10 seconds. In testing it, it didn't seem that the long page load times were due to the content itself being loaded. Once the server responded with the generated HTML everything else loads up super snappy.
It seems to me, and if I'm wrong please let me know, that you've got some sort of caching setup server side. If that's the case you might want to increase how long before the server side cache expires. Setting it to an hour could end up making a pretty big positive difference if you're limited by being on a shared hosting plan or a low powered VPS.
Double checking myself with GT Metrix shows that to be the case as well. Testing a couple times using their tool showed loading times between 3.0 seconds and 8.4 seconds. On the tests where it returned in close to 3 seconds the time for the server to respond with the initial response was around ~200 ms. With the other load times over 3 seconds, it was taking 2+ seconds for the server to do the initial response.
I tested from my desktop in Texas and GT Metrix used hardware located in Vancouver, Canada.
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