Giana, I'm talking about the page response time... website being unresponsive up to the point where it times out.

We are talking about the time it takes to place the hamsters inside the wheel and ask them nicely to start running... or else we're bringing in the cat LOL!

I'm trying to be part of the solution here, nobody wants to be part of the problem... I'm pretty sure.

If you can make it so the page is accessible right away but the images on the page load slower, I think that's acceptable.