Looking at the code one way to speed up the total site load time would be to have the main page be static and completely cachable. onload have it fetch a list

Looking at the code one way to speed up the total site load time would be to have the main page be static and completely cachable. onload have it fetch a list of articles and populate the main page. This way it would fetch the articles and images all at the same time v.s generating the main page, and then fetching the resources.