There are many ways to speed up the load time of your blog. The most popular ones are the WP-Cache and the SuperCache which were created to help your site survive a Digg or Slashdot.
WordPress even has that built-in option to allow compression (gzip) when the browser allows for it. The other one I just stumbled upon the other day is PHP Speedy. It’s a really simple script that you install on your webserver (or your hosting account) which automatically speeds up download time of your pages.
What it does is compresses all the files in one go instead of pulling the individual items separately. That could include your CSS files, JS scripts, and other components which reduces the number of HTTP requests.
I’ve tried this one my blog here and saw my page load dropped from 5.2 secs to just 2.1s. I’m not sure if it’s compatible to other plugins like WP-SuperCache but it’s worth a try. Download a copy of it here and the really simple instructions here.
Note: Of course, you’ll realize that what you saved on load time will cost your server some extra CPU cycles. That’s the trade-off.
I am using wp-cache here, http://www.pinoysites.org/jcm/. But the greatest benefit of this is not on the blogger itself but on the webhost of the blogger since it will ease their database server processing, right Yugs?