Originally Posted by
Cellisttoo
My hunch is that pages intentionally load slowly- ever notice that the ads appear first for several seconds before the page loads?
If you've seen the ads before, the material may be cached on your computer or on your proxy server.
Most ads are served within an <iframe> and the contents can't really be requested until you've received the page itself. It's your own browser that decides how to plot things.
Slowness to some extent is determined by how many posts / page you choose to display.
Not saying there aren't performance issues, but there are other factors at work as well.