Why do my site load so slowly?

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Here are two sites I designed with VSD. They load pathetically slowly. What am I doing wrong?

www.skoop.com
www.lifoodies.com

Thanks in advance for your help.
Dan G
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They load extremely fast for me here. Less then 5 seconds.
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They came up fast for me too.
Forest
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They load pretty fast for me. Less than 3 sec....:)
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Yep fast for me too, maybe your internet is just running slow?
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Came up real fast for me. Checked all your pages.

Jay
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It's not my internet connection, which is a very fast Verizon FiOS fiber optic link. Every other site I go to loads very quickly.

My issue is that it loads from the top down in a weird scrolling manner. No other site I've seen does this. It seems to be an artifact of the way VSD builds the pages as individual <div> containers. Every single item appears to be its own container. Is there a way of forcing the entire page to be loaded before displaying it?

Thanks, everyone, for your input.
Dan G
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DanG wrote:
It's not my internet connection, which is a very fast Verizon FiOS fiber optic link. Every other site I go to loads very quickly.

My issue is that it loads from the top down in a weird scrolling manner. No other site I've seen does this. It seems to be an artifact of the way VSD builds the pages as individual <div> containers. Every single item appears to be its own container. Is there a way of forcing the entire page to be loaded before displaying it?

Thanks, everyone, for your input.

Dan, the page loads almost instantly as one unit for me. I don't see anything loading individually or even remotely slow. On my iPhone it even loaded in a few seconds as well.
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Both sites loaded as Dan described for me the first time but instantly when I checked again later.

It still only took a few seconds to load but they did load from the top down the first time.
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Cleared my cache and loaded both sites and even though I had to trust them both again on my script blocker they still loaded almost instantly, just a hair of a pause for the graphics but really fast.

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