I see this thread is 9 months old, but I have the same problem and hope someone can try to go to a page I just re-did to see how long it takes to load. This is NOT an attempt to send traffic to my site. I just want to decide if all of my index pages like this one are too heavy or not, and if I should transform my rollover images to ordinary gifs or even cut the page into two separate pages.
The page in question is
http://www.real-english.com/reo/index.html
If anyone has time to go there and post a message, many thanks in advance.
-Mike