I'm currently running the following for "speed improvement":
1. autoptimize
2. EWWW optimizer cloud
3. Wordpress GZIP compression
4. WP Super Simple Speed
5. ZenCache
I am focusing my efforts on evilempiregaming.com/sbs as that's the site I've been actually working on. I'm not going to waste time on the others until I fix the speed issues. It's running the same theme as the home domain. I'm starting to think it's the host I am using (arvixe.com), but I was hoping to at least get it to load in a few seconds .