A delay to get DNS going, is my guess. Mostly fine after that. Beware bench marks and opinions paid for or not.
Thanks for the feedback and help on tracking down what might be the problem. These were all free website tools, which I don’t trust much; that’s why I wanted to get some human opinions.
If your hot linking images or iframing other websites, you’re at the mercy of their speed. I’m not saying that’s what you’ve done but if you did do that it’s going to make your site as slow as the slowest of you hot links. If you did that.
I never thought of that. Most of my ad images are hosted on the merchant’s own servers so that is probably the main problem. Thanks again.
In terms of the design and layout, the joins between the ‘marble’ tiles at the top are not very smooth and there’s quite a lot of empty space at the top of the page.
I was wondering how noticeable the tiled marble was. I noticed it, but thought it might just be because I knew how big the tiles were. I had cut the original marble tile in half, so the file wasn’t quite as large, but I guess 12kb isn’t that big a deal. I changed it back to the original, does it look smoother or is it still noticeable?
As for the empty space, that was a temporary solution I had to a problem I’ve been meaning to fix. IE and Firefox add different amounts of space to the top and the right bar overlaps the tab in IE without enough white space. I’m going to eventually put the pulldown in the middle and have the left and right bars go all the way up to the tab bar.
Thanks for the feedback, those were a couple of problems I’ve been wondering about.
