Originally Posted by Jano
Well, after logging off and clearing cache, on comcast and 4 year old 1GHz celeron, W2kPro, Firefox 1.5.0.4, it took 7 secs (average of 5 measurements each between 6 to 8 secs).
When logged in it took on average 8 secs. I deliberatelly used a slower computer so that "slowness" was more evident.
I also did not find any trace of java anywhere, but there was plenty of javascipts on the client side.
But I found that they use
www.omniture.com to track the visits to the web site.
Something is slowing down those page loads. You can Akamai the main page, and other pages, and cookies shouldn't be an issue (client side), so it must be logging and/or database back-end lookups. Either way... 6-8 seconds for a home-page load seems like a long time.
Steve B.