FYI,

 

We just deployed CE on one of our test public websites. Here's the timing:

 

Running an older WinXP/IE7: Takes about 10 secs first time to load the page, menus and all the baggage. When I open a file from a pop-up document manager, the file opens and the page (including CE) redisplays in less than 2 secs...

 

Running on a very old 500 mhz notebook - Win2k Pro/IE6 initial page load: 14 secs. Load a file and redisplay: 3 1/2 seconds...

 

Must be something in your settings...

 

Our web page has over 100 image files, BTW...