just did those things you recommended and load time per the speed test doubled to 29 seconds! The size of the page is not any smaller at 2.1mb. Time spent per content type is 92% for HTML.
fyi – many of my compressed logos are now showing up incorrectly fyi – I’m not sure how I will resolve that other than reload them all. Do you know? On another note, I ran loaded WP Mimify and that seemed to fix the slow load issue. Now I have to fix the logo issue.