How do you speed up your page loads?

You can:

Use sprites instead of single images.
Use a PHP accelerator.
Reduce the # of modules you use.
Be sure to cache your css and scripts under performance settings.
Upgrade your server.
You can use xStatistics (I think its called) to track page load times et. al.
If you have a video oriented site with lots of traffic, use CDN (content delivery network).

Applying any of these should help somewhat...

There are many different steps you can take to speed up your server. Do what you can and good luck.

Derek

Here's more info:
http://drupal.org/node/147087

Lots of good info at: http://2bits.com/contents/articles

I don't think all drupal sites are slow. Do you think this drupal.org slow? it is a drupal site too.

I've just written a post on how to speed up drupal sites: http://www.o-learn.com/content/10-quick-tips-speed-your-drupal-website . I hope it can help.