title: Why is Magento so slow?
body: <p>Is Magento usually so terribly slow?</p>
  
  <p>This is my first experience with it and the admin panel simply takes ages to load and save changes. It is a default installation with the test data.</p>
  
  <p>The server where it is hosted serves other non-Magento sites super fast.  What is it about the PHP code that Magento uses that makes it so slow, and what can be done to fix it?</p>