Quote Originally Posted by dnolan View Post
I have this wonderful template installed and have installed several mods and all seems to be working fine with one exception; loading speed! Sometimes the menu or all of the sideboxes do not load at all. After several refreshes it will finally load. I use Firefox but also have tried in Explorer.
The flash images on the main page is very small and the fact is it was loading slow before I added the flash.
I don't know much about optimizating for speed nor have I found anything about optimizing Zen in the forum. I would like someone to take a look and give me some critque and suggestions.
Check it out at: http://stunstasersandmore.com
I would definitely get rid of the flash, it is not very small, it is almost 420K, whoever told you it was small was smoking something good, LOL. You can analyze the speed of your site here:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/s...yze/index.html

Your total site size is 563960 bytes, and says it would take 7 seconds to load on a T1 connection:

Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 441.30 seconds
28.8K 222.75 seconds
33.6K 191.53 seconds
56K 116.60 seconds
ISDN 128K 38.62 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 7.19 seconds

MOST of your site is that flash file. You should make your logo smaller as well. I would make it much physically smaller, and try to get it under 20K (its at about 70K right now).