At 12 noon using my university-based PC which has a fast network connection to the Internet, the first page took 6 seconds to load and the English version page a further 44 seconds. This morning at about 8am the first page took longer but the second page was much quicker. They looked nice, but I'm spoilt having such a fast connection! The total size of graphics on the first page is 48,971 bytes, which is not too bad, especially considering that they represent 1,514,788 bytes once these files are uncompressed. The second page has compressed image files with a total of about 45,000 bytes, less than the first. I must assume that the main cause of the problem of slow download times reported by others is that the pages are stored on a server that has a slow and/or heavily congested link to an Internet backbone. I can access pages with images much bigger than this from some other servers with a much quicker download time, presumably because the hosts concerned have a much more robust link to the Internet backbone. Perhaps the pipe from ICOM's server to the Internet needs a bigger bore?! Best wishes, Adrian