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The site is slow on my not-so-new PC with win32/WinXP/Chrome. When I wheel-scroll, there is a 300ms-ish delay before the page moves. This almost never happens for any site, so it stands out. On another newer PC (win32/Win7/Chrome), the blue background loads slowly in jumps (it's a 1MB png file hosted on siai.helldesign.net).
This has been fixed, I think. Is it faster for you, now?
No, still slow in about the same way (could be better, but I don't have a quantitative measure; definitely slower than LW, I've just compared).
And in browsers that unload images in tabs that aren't focused (I know that Firefox nightly does this, not sure if has got into release versions yet), the background image takes up to a second to reappear when refocusing the tab (which is quite distracting).
Also, Google Pagespeed suggests some improvements: most seem to be solvable simply by installing a compression/caching plugin e.g. W3 Total Cache (this is what is being used on FacingTheSingularity.com). (Optimisations in page loading improve SEO.)
They're running Apache, so another option would be to install Google's mod_pagespeed which will automatically make a lot of speed optimizations.
(Disclaimer: I work on mod_pagespeed.)