Optimization is not an option.

You want your users to find your site quickly, and your users want your site to load quickly and then to be able to use it easily, without long delays for page loads.

That's why optimized focuses on search engine optimization (SEO); modern Web applications using standard XHTML + CSS, Ajax, DHTML, and related DOM scripting techniques; and open source database performance tuning for optimized delivery of database-driven websites.