It could be anything.. No-one here can accurately diagnose why a site is slow by clicking on a link
If your site doesnt validate, then fix it, and see if that helps. Simple enough. If that doesnt work, then decrease the size of your images or the amount of posts on the pages.
if that doesnt work .. so on and so on …
In other words, work through the “problem” and see where you get.
I don’t disagree with what your statement, that said what is interesting is that one browser seems to be okay with it and not the other one.
Ralph
IE will be slower, unless it’s ‘tuned’.
I gave up after 100+secs. (Firefox 1.5.0.4).
I remember seeing your site a month ago or so(?), and it looked good. You were using some relatively large images. My guess is there are just more of them now…
Using wp-cache?
I’m using wp-cache and it helps a bit indeed.
I added some larger files as I could not use thumbnails with the combination of LightBox and Flash objects. This has been fixed (merci whooami) and now should remove the larger pic and replace them with thumbnails.
I think what makes people go away so quickly is that they do not see anything at all. If they would see something coming, they may be more patient and hold a bit more. But a white page is depressing.
I’m sure I’m not alone in this situation (slow server), and wonder if anyone has found a trick to display a teaser that would be quick to load whilst the rest slowly makes it’s way to the users machine.
Ralph
Do your <img> tags define width and height for all your images? That can help…
Well, if you have a photoblog and a very, very, very slow server – that’s obviously a deadly combination.
Get a fast one.
Till then… showing 5-6 huge images (over 100 KB/piece) on the frontpage – it’s a very unfriendly idea. At the speed of your server even one of them is too much!
