title: How to reduce server "Wait" time?
body: <p>I am trying to optimize my site's speed and I'm using the great tool at <a href="http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/" rel="noreferrer">pingdom.com</a>.  Right now, over 50% of the time it takes to load the page is "Wait" time as shown in the screenshot below.  What can I do to reduce this?  Also, how typical is this figure?  are there benchmarks on this?  Thanks!</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/RgsFY.png" alt="high server wait time"></p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong>
  Ok.. let me clarify a few things.  There are no server side scripts or database calls going on. Just HTML, CSS, JS, and images.  I have already done some things like push js to the end of the body tag to get parallel downloads.  I am aware that the main.html and templates.html are adding to the overall wait time by being done synchronously after js.js downloads, that's not the problem.  I am just surprised at how much "wait" time there is for each request.  Does server distance affect this?  what about being on a shared server, does that affect the wait time?  Is there any low-hanging fruit to remedy those issues?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rsBlu.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>