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Most of the time my webpage is very slow, and expecially in IE.

I have had this problem on several servers. I have tried my page on 2 webhotels and my own server.

Slow loaded it perhaps not the right word. When you click a link to a ie. category, I get the "connecting server"... "waiting for respons" this goes pretty fast but the when "opening page http://...."... this takes sometimes several seconds.
I use 3 html-nuggets, recent_entreis and show_entries as plugins.

I am using the kubrik theme and I have modified it further and a total of 6 .tpl are modified. Can it be this that make the page slow loaded, the data from the main .tpl and .css must be replaced with my modified ones every pageload.

I am going to try this tip later today and perhaps it will help.
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1809


Any other suggestions what I can do?

Actually, HTML-Nuggets and recent entries don't take that much performance. But the "show_entries" plugin really does, since it queries and parses a lot of stuff.

Customized templates should not impact performance that much -- but staticizing the CSS will help a bit.

What also helps is using MySQL and Apache tuning. The most helpful thing to have is a PHP code cache like APC or eAccelerator.

The last thing to try is using the "simplecache" Plugin, which makes static HTML pages of the usual s9y output. You loose some of the dynamic flexibility, but in your case it shouldn't impact anything.

HTH,
Garvin