The problem with worryfreelabs is all the images haven't been properly compressed. Yes, it's a terrible website, but not for the reasons you're insinuating. They've just put silly big images in. Also the reason for all the script tags is simply that they've not added JQuery UI properly.
And the problem with thisisyourkingdom seems to be a singular plugin, the wordfence plugin, which on its own is taking 8 seconds in a request which seems to be some sort of broken logging (I couldn't be bothered to look at the code so it might be a deliberate hang to make sure the person is really a human, but it's a terrible way of doing it). Everything else is loading in sub-2 seconds.
I'm all for ragging on Wordpress, as long as it's actually its fault ;)
The problem with worryfreelabs is all the images haven't been properly compressed. Yes, it's a terrible website, but not for the reasons you're insinuating. They've just put silly big images in. Also the reason for all the script tags is simply that they've not added JQuery UI properly.
And the problem with thisisyourkingdom seems to be a singular plugin, the wordfence plugin, which on its own is taking 8 seconds in a request which seems to be some sort of broken logging (I couldn't be bothered to look at the code so it might be a deliberate hang to make sure the person is really a human, but it's a terrible way of doing it). Everything else is loading in sub-2 seconds.
I'm all for ragging on Wordpress, as long as it's actually its fault ;)