Graham
Mwebvendor Most of the slowing down is caused by external links and scripts like ad codes everything you can host locally will access just that little bit quicker
use local hosted bootstrap and jquery
also if you can have actual resized images instead of using css resizing that is a lot quicker
Those filters worked ok in my tests but you probably need to apply it to the description 'entry.content'
as that has a link too if you are using 'first image'
