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I have a virtue mart website it takes forever to load.How do I increase the speed with which the site loads.

+1  A: 

Buy a better server.

Rob
Joomla! is known to be slow, especially on shared hosting. Such is the trade-off with out-of-the-box CMS solutions.
Charlie Salts
+2  A: 

Go to the global configuration and turn on caching!

Charles Ma
+2  A: 

I only wish there was some way you could search across the internet for lists of such suggestions.

Oh yeah, http://www.google.com/#q=optimize+joomla the top two results have entire lists.

Sorry for the semi sarcastic tone, however a simple google or documentation search should have found what you were looking for.

phantombrain
thanx this really helped
mike
"Decrease the number of external and internal links on your pages"?? How does that help?
DisgruntledGoat
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Check this out - http://www.leewillis.co.uk/gzip-joomla-tips-faster-website/