As others have mentioned - image optimization will help you a lot. Taking a look at firebug Net profiling, the homepage footprint weighs in at 2MB. 500K is your "studio" image, followed by the bridge bg photo at 370K.
So just optimizing these 2 images will reduce your bandwidth by around 660K or 33%. I'm guessing you can do both in 210K (150K bridge, 60K studio = 210K) possibly better.
EDIT: decided to actually fix it instead of just talking about it.
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Nice looking site overall.
As others have mentioned - image optimization will help you a lot. Taking a look at firebug Net profiling, the homepage footprint weighs in at 2MB. 500K is your "studio" image, followed by the bridge bg photo at 370K.
So just optimizing these 2 images will reduce your bandwidth by around 660K or 33%. I'm guessing you can do both in 210K (150K bridge, 60K studio = 210K) possibly better.
EDIT: decided to actually fix it instead of just talking about it.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6653594/pantastic-there-i-fixed-it....
studio.jpg photoshop jpg 70 quality ggb.jpg photoshop jpg 80 quality
old: 494k + 369k = 863k new: 64k + 1k + 70k = 135k
savings = 728K or 36% of your total homepage footprint.
Save more by splitting all your polaroid shadows to png, and the photos to jpg 60-80 quality.
Requires html/css change to layout studio image as 2 images stacked on top (separate shadow png)
thanks so much! I didn't realize load time would be such a problem