Wordpress site painfully slow

Question

What tools are there out there for determining why a site takes so long to load pages?

I\'m using a very simple theme that I changed to fit my needs, it\'s a brand n

Answer 1

try using a profiler like xdebug, how to setup:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Testing_WordPress_Performance#Configuring_Xdebug_for_Profiling

according to your site, the page is taking a long time to generate and doing a fairly large # of queries:

so.. was there a plugin that was recently added that may be doing a lot of db calls?

supercache will help a lot, requests won't need to run all those queries if the page is cached...