Given the increasingly short attention span of the average Internet user, it is more important than ever that your blog load as quickly as possible. If a site takes too long to load, a visitor may just click away and never come back.

You don’t want that. Instead, you might want to think about using the Swift Theme for WordPress. This theme has been designed from the ground-up to be one of the fastest loading, SEO-optimized, server-friendly themes on the web.

Going through the rest of the options, we find a clean magazine-style layout with large thumbnail images, six custom widgets, two featured post sliders, a tabbed interface, and a built-in import/export function.

The free download link, along with the live preview, can be found in the Free Themes Directory on WordPress.org.