eh? How can a background color of a table lengthen the DL time. It was just slow because of all the changes that day.
The page was loading like the background was a freaking bitmap. Plus I don't like change, so there.
From what people were saying, it sounded like maybe certain versions of Internet Explorer were using 100% CPU trying to render parts of the page.
It loaded quickly for me, but I use Konqueror on Linux.