Dan,
Actually the front "FT Miles" page (loaded incompletely twice before eventually finishing off properly) and the "Todays Active Topics" (finally loaded at 90 topics) page were both painfully slow from the outset. The rest of the board was not as bad as I progressed and seemed to improve rather than get a bit slower as it usually does.
Hope this helps!
Thanks very much.
Have a great weekend,
-Mark