franksmule

I would not worry about compressing images or anything like that now. Your problem is the server is not generating the page fast enough. its take 12 seconds for a page to be generated, before even the JS, CSS, images start loading. What about compiling templates? are they set correctly? I know godaddy and hostgator are not great performance servers, but they shouldn't be this slow.

How many products do you have? Have you enabled caching and everything else in performance options?