If you're a TED.com user, I'm pretty sure you've noticed the slow page loads compared to ... Well, just about any other site out there. I've sent some feedback (below), and I'm hoping you'll help out as well by suggesting general and specific improvements.

Hello,

While your web site is some of the best content collections I've ever come across, the style sheets / scripts are so huge as to require the full attention of a Pentium IV 3 GHz CPU for several seconds for every page displayed. 122 KB of CSS and 259 KB of JavaScript is massive, even today.

As a first fix, I'd suggest to use some of the online tools to compress CSS and JavaScript. Also, with 8 years of web development behind me (3 professionally), I'm confident that you can reduce the amount an order of magnitude without losing the overall look and feel of the site.

Thank you for your time and magnificent content!

PS: I've asked for feedback, and I'll post it here if I receive any.