Why is my site loading slowly?

I'm curious. I have high speed, and my site loads quickly for me, although, it does take a few seconds as things appear, like the background, headings, etc. Is this normal? Some others are saying that it's VERY slow for them, so it's gotta be bad for non high speed internet users.
What causes this, and how can I help it? I changed my background, which was something I "painted" in Painter IX, and tweaked in Photoshop, then I optimized it for the web, which made it a GIF. I figured that would help a lot, but it seems to have made it a tad slower, actually. Weird. Even my images are all downsized in the "downsize" program. Can't figure out what would be causing it to be so slow!
Tami
Heart Dog Studios
www.heartdogstudios.com

Hi Tami
Here are some of the backgrounds and images you are using on your pages, and their sizes:
http://www.heartdogstudios.com/heartdogstudios/Homefiles/backgroundimage1.png 850K
http://www.heartdogstudios.com/heartdogstudios/About%20Me_files/Biophoto-filtere d.png 446K
http://www.heartdogstudios.com/heartdogstudios/Images/background.gif 319K
http://www.heartdogstudios.com/heartdogstudios/Photographyfiles/backgroundimage1.png 479K
It's these that are causing the problem.
If you've already optimised the images, then once you drag them into iWeb, don't apply any effects within iWeb itself, otherwise you will turn it into a png again upon publish.
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