I'm evaluating 3 shopping cart options of which this is one. I'm concerned about the home page download time for my customers. Loading in less than 3 seconds a requirement. What is it that slows things down? The theme? The service provider? Plug ins? Is the Market Theme considered fast loading?
The project is a 20+ page ecommerce and information site for products that are sold "plain" or customized with engraving or imprinting (quantity orders). I was thinking of putting a flash sound and a video file on the home page.
At the moment, I'm leaning towards Market Theme, I just need a little more info to get me over the fence. The other options I'm looking at are WP eCommerce with Vanilla Cart (plus: customer history, on page shopping cart, upgrade from PayPal) and Magento with Modern (plus: reporting, expansive, very beefy). I like simple clean themes.
My primary concern between these three is download times… any advice? Am I off base? Comments, and straight forward insight are greatly appreciated! THANKS in advance!