Page Loading Slowly

Will very complex positioning using multiple divs cause page to load slowly

[alcinoe]

My page seems to be loading very slowly and I am wondering if this is because the layout is done entirely with css and there are multiple nested divs.

I am trying to build an accessible site without using tables. I managed to get my site to work to a certain degree in different browsers, to resize to accomodate different screen resolutions, to work well with accessibility programs like jaws and zoomtext and to work ok (Except in Netscape) when the size of the text is changed.

I feel like the complex code that it took to do all of this has slowed down the loading time. Or maybe I made some sort of mistake that is causing the slowness.

Anyone have any advice?

[pageoneresults]

Hello alcinoe, Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Can we assume that your styles are in an external style sheet? If so, how big is your css file? How big are the pages overall?

[alcinoe]

Hi,
Thanks for the welcome.
Yes, the CSS is External.
Perhaps the images are a bit excessive, but the page did not seem so slow before I added a few extra divs to the css. The images sizes were the same before.
Here are the total sizes of everything on the page:
HTML: 6544
Images: 63648
Javascript: 5540 (Google Ads)
CSS: 11095

[pageoneresults]

Javascript: 5540 (Google Ads)

Were the Google Ads there before you switched to CSS? Try removing the Ads on one page and see if the performance issue still exists.