Any php expert there?

Hi

This is the site developed for one of my client
Direct2deal.com (http://www.Direct2deal.com)

The home page of this site takes much time to download..Pl. suggest me some ways to optimize this site..

Ur urgent feedback will be appreciated.

It's 690K which is huge. It's probaly going to be ignored at that size.

Reduce the items listed.

Actually, total size is over 1 mb - that means a dial up ser has to wait about 200 seconds for the page to load, over 3 mins.

I would say - start my making an entrance page - with as few images as possible, and have it link to various catagories.

Keep pages under 100k in total size. Search engines dont like pages to be much bigger then 100k and neither do users. Use more pages and less on a page. Get images as small as you can (in bytes).

Here is an easy way to check the size of a page: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/