If you missed it, there is also a blog post about performance. I use that as guide for improving performance on sites:
http://www.silverstripe.org/how-to-improve-website-performance/
And then i use http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ to see where i should improve, and ofcourse also the showqueries=1 url param onsite.
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