lavazza - 7:49 am on Apr 3, 2010 (gmt 0)

From the OP:

if you throw all your HTML, Javascript, CSS and graphic files in the same directory (and modify your files to account for this), your pages will load 20-30% faster.

You missed one pertinent bit:

Of course, I wasn’t a math major.

If those figures [webpagesthatsuck.com] were accompanied by something even remotely resembling stats (e.g. average based on 100 tests) then I'd be tempted to wonder how and why there might be such a discrepancy

In the meantime, I'll stick with the 80/20 approach to site maintenance; concentrating my efforts on content and presentation