I have 4 sites with ixwebhosting and all my sites load really slow. www.easychum.com www.sensibleacneadvice.com and i have paid people to clean up the code so it loads quicker. I also got rid of a lot of embedded youtube videos. But both still take 5 seconds to load, even up to 8 seconds. I don't know where or how to solve this problem?
It's not that slow with me, but one advice I can give is using more CSS instead of just image layout tables, it changes the loading order.
It seems to load fast for me. Well, 8 seconds it not bad for a site load. Also, you are showing your contents faster compared to some sites that loads slowly, waiting for the large header image to come out before the contents do.
Stop using images for the menus, just use the single image for a background for each menu item and use plain text.
Check out these tips. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html You can get the yslow plugin for Firebug with FF to get a nice assessment of those tips.