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Hi theprof,
In a nutshell you need to reduce both HTTP requests and total site size. Sounds simple, but often is not and generally means making compromises between how you want your site to look, and how you want it to perform for your low bandwidth users. This is a balance that is independant to each webmasters preferences really, go too far either side and your site may well suffer though.
You really need to pin down eactly what you want displayed on your sites front page. As it is I think there is perhaps too much content on your front page. You have 8 news items, 7 polls and several other modules and custom blocks. Ideally I would be looking at having no more than about 100K to load from you front page. Do a google search for "IBM page detailer basic" which is a tool that when used with Internet explorer breaks down how your website loads into the browser. In my opinion it is a must have tool for optimizing your site.
