Why do some Web pages take a long time to load?
A number of factors affect the loading speed of Web pages: the amount of text and graphics on the page, your connection speed, the traffic on the Internet and at the site you’re visiting, and so on. In general, the more graphics a Web page contains, the slower the loading time (the longer it takes for you to see the page); the more people trying to see that Web page and the more people surfing the Internet in general, the slower the loading time. Although you can’t control those factors, you can control what type of modem you have and ultimately how fast your connection speed will be.
