An easy way to trim some size off of your WordPress page loading times is to serve jQuery in your theme from the Google Libraries CDN rather than have your theme load WordPress’s internal version of jQuery which is located on your local server. I have personally used this technique a lot lately when developing WordPress themes to improve a website loading times, also by serving jQuery from Googles CDN you can easily update to the latest version of jQuery by simply changing the version number in a wordpress function.
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Separate Comments & Trackbacks In WordPress v3.3+ With jQuery Tabs
This tutorial will teach you how to separate your WordPress comments and trackbacks in WordPress v3.3 and above using some simple jQuery tabs to display the content separately. I have used this technique on several WordPress installs that use the WordPress internal comment system including here on WPShock before I recently changed the sites comment system to use lifefyre.
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