Presumably that would be network latency from Flickr which is odd since they have a CDN but it can be flakey. Are you setting image sizes at all? That helps the overall page render faster even if the images are

i think there maybe one image that is causing the issue.

missing (although obviously factor in mobile friendly stuff too where possible). It might be worth seeing what your browser's page debugger says about the load times anyway

I am rolling my own server and LAMP stack to im looking for all the speed i can get

Set up your own proxies too?

i dont have it on a cdn, cause well i cant afford it. The page speed it self is good its the images that kill me

Keep in mind that browsers limit the number of requests per host, if you can spread them on different subdomains that helps.

I just mean if you have a local proxy feeding the Flickr images you may get a speed boost if the Flickr CDN is killing you

I know im running the site lean but really it has head room and bandwidth. but on all the tests it fails because of the image files

i guess i could try that.

see for your self MudHoney -

Wow, is the worst for speed but it's not the biggest. The Linden Images seem slow too. I'd look for alternate links

I just tried your website and all the images loaded on the page loaded in a few seconds. 3 or 4 seconds tops

yes but you have to store them locally, I had an issue with that with my feed aggregator

granted I stopped my blog aggregator in 2011 so times have definitely changed, but that did help because it stored the images locally, so I could custom cache them to overall fix speed

but flickr images are your biggest loss of time in loading, so I feel ya. Wish I had a good solution, in 11 I hadn't found anythuing elegant

i was thinking that, i would just have to pull the images into the sever and compress them on the fly.

BTW that was my little project for the weekend, that a ubuntu box with a dual core and 4 gigs. And its running on my home innerwebs. we have 120/30mb service so i figured i had the bandwidth.

Dilly_Dawes: i wish I could remember the plugin, I've been googling it and my server backup is at home. I recall it was like HTCD or something named like that

kesseret: i will look that up