Hoople - 6:19 pm on Feb 16, 2012 (gmt 0)

I only noticed a slight (0.5 second) delay in IE 8 compared to FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari.

Page has 3 validation errors but they seem insignificant to loading.

A quick check at GTMetrix (Page Speed, YSlow! & timeline) showed many opportunities for speed improvement. I'd be concerned about the lengthy blocking as it's adding a lot to the page load time (2.2 seconds).