In reply to Stephen Cronin.

Some of the ThemeForest theme sells like hot cake, primarily because they are number 1, and n00bies like me, on our first time to ThemeForest, tend to purchase them, only to find that they load really slowly, and pull in 200+ requests on our tests on Pingdom :o

On the other hand, on the same clean installation, a fully set up Genesis and it's child theme by Studiopress loads up with 20 odd requests!