speeding up my Aegaeus site after development is done

Hi there,

I’m finally going live with my site, using the aegaeus theme, and i’ve made all the changes and ready to release it. It seems like i turned something off so that when i made a change to css or html, it would show up instantly, whereas before (default) it would take some time to show a change. This was killing me originally when i was making changes, but afterwards it was fine for development mode. Now i’m ready to go on it, but can’t remember what i turned off… the site runs somewhat slow. I did install w3 total cache per your recommendations on your support forum, and it seemed to help a bit. Can you tell me what else i need to do to optimize this for viewing rather than development? Seems like it was some setting but i can’t find it.

Also, google pagespeed analytics says i need to “optimize images” and much of them are native to Aegaeus theme. Is there a plugin that will do this?

Thanks for any reply,
Lee