The *wp_list_bookmarks()* function is rather expensive. It provides the Blogroll sidebar block. If we don't care about that and remove the call from *wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php* we are now at: | *siege -b -t30s -c5 http://wp1.localhost* ** SIEGE 2.68 ** Preparing 5 concurrent users for battle. The server is now under siege... Lifting the server siege... done. Transactions: 1000 hits Availability: 100.00 % Elapsed time: 29.76 secs Data transferred: 1.97 MB Response time: *0.15 secs* Transaction rate: *33.60 trans/sec* Throughput: 0.07 MB/sec Concurrency: 4.98 Successful transactions: 1000 Failed transactions: 0 Longest transaction: 0.58 Shortest transaction: 0.07]]>