Slow loading in IE

[brettreasure]

I've just had a graphics person re-design a site for a client www.computermechanics.com.au. After the re-design it's loading very slowly in Internet Explorer. Is this something to do with the fonts? Can someone suggest a way of reducing the page loading time? Any advice appreciated.

bret

[kay]

Um, this site uses font tags and tables for layout. It was redesigned in which century?

I can't comment on the page load time, but there are no fonts actually defined for a lot of the headings. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like in my Firefox:




Yes, my default font in Evil Genius. There's nothing odd about that.

[indhyper]

It's slow in IE because it's trying to download 20 odd true type fonts, whereas in Firefox it only downloads a couple.

Why it does that in IE I'm not sure.

[temp]

interesting

so IE downloads all of the fonts specified here:
http://www.computermechanics.com.au/fonts/font.css

while FF loads only the ones used in the current page?

Brett I'd suggest you remove all of the custom fonts. It will be speedy and I promise the site will not look worse.

[madpilot]

If it is the font, then look at the way the download is declared. Use http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ to generate it - they do a much better job of handling all the exceptions has hacks.

[brettreasure]

Many thanks all for constructive suggestions. lol@evilgenius font.