Leosghost - 10:41 pm on Dec 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

You could attempt to get around this by using image pre loaders in the background ..the effectiveness of this is going to depend on your design layout ..

Also ten seconds to load image pages! I run some 90% image sites with images served from the US and have nowhere near that long to wait!..am on dsl in France and incoming speed is an actual 250kb per sec max ( they tell me 6.00 to 8.00 megs ..they lie ..I knew they did when I signed up ..they lied less than the "competition" of which we dont have much )..

How big is your average image? remember most ( 98% ) of people run at definitions that mean anything over 72dpi is wasted on them ..run low to medium res "teaser" "click throughs" at entry pages and high res as lead outs ( with warnings about "large files" etc )..

BTW your UK server space and specs costs way less than french for the same deal so be relatively happy..

doesn't geotargeting by search engines suck?..Let the searcher decide the relevancy of where the data is hosted!