We developed a new site
www.xposed.com
we have 40,000 articles .. we are very graphic rich .. and have incoming news feeds every 15 minutes.
Yeah good content .. but we are also very slow. We use asp.
I'm hoping .. maybe praying .. that some of you might have ideas on how we can speed the site up.
I'm sure the slow load is causing a lot of people to baile out before the even see one page.
For dial up we are brutally slow.
Any ideas .. please

Basic things optimize the sites images.
Save the images as the proper type.
Try to get rid of unnecessary tags.
Optimize your shockwave.

I think the reason your site is slow is because of all the graphics. You have way too many for the main page of the site. In addition to what Athorn4941 said, also try using text and CSS instead of image headers.

Agreed. Wherever you can, optimize code. Try to write cleaner HTML coding as well (If you can make it XHTML 1.0 Transitional Compliant, it helps). You will find that cleaner and more streamlined code runs faster. Use CSS where possible, cut down on/optimize your graphics.

if you are using php try installing a php-cache such as phpa or zend

If the site is asp driven and calling from a database, usually tghe sql calls are the culprit or slow code. Try not to loop or use do while unless needed and also create DLL files for server intensive procedures. Put the load on the server, not the bandwidth. It will save tons of times. We have cut huge pages down to seconds by doing this.