"I think you'll find the speed of the site is related to the user's computer! "

The delay (often a minute or more when it happens) for me is always when waiting for the site to start sending data. This happens regardless of browser. Once data starts flowing the page loads quickly.

I've got 3GHz processor speed, 1G RAM, a Radeon card and DSL broadband. Until recently I had 0.9GHz, 128Mbytes and undistinguished onboard graphics. Nothing's changed regarding the lack of speed of this website (except that I've given up hoping for any improvement).