title: How significant is the "amount of queries used" to site performance/speed?
body: <p>I've been wondering how significant is the amount of queries used to site performance/speed.</p>
  
  <p>I have two websites, running with different engines (one with IPB and another with MyBB). The IPB one has less queries used (only 14 on average), but it runs slower than MyBB with more queries used (average on 20).</p>
  
  <p>I thought this is because the IPB is heavily-modded, so I run a fresh-install on my localhost.</p>
  
  <p>But it still results the same. The IPB (which has less queries) runs slower than MyBB (with more queries).</p>
  
  <p>This makes me wonder, so how is queries used affecting the site performance? Is it significant?</p>