IE website picture load time takes forever

This seems like such a simple question but for the life of me I can't figure out the problem...

I've developed a WordPress theme for a family member for their small business website. She did not have much written content so the site is very picture heavy - http://www.ladybuglocks.com

I've tested this in multiple browsers and all of them seem to work great except for Internet Explorer. Each time I go to a new page it takes FOREVER (well, in 开发者_开发问答internet time at least) to load the pictures and it's very frustrating. It gets stuck where at the bottom it says "10 items remaining", and it can take 5-10 seconds for the pictures to appear.

I've developed more than a handful websites, many with photo galleries, and I've never seen this problem before.

If any of you can visit the site, attempt to recreate the problem and give me pointers with how to fix it, it will be so very appreciated! My cousin wants to start advertising but doesn't feel comfortable doing this with the website feeling unresponsive.

Well they're optimised and decent sizes... is your bandwidth suffering intermittently? I see they're served from Wordpress, do they use a CDN (content distribution network) in some strange way?

My advice is to use Google Chrome Web Dev tools, turn on 'resource tracking' in the console and watch where your bottlenecks occur. You can do something similar with YSlow addon for Firefox.

Nothing else looks amiss to me, perhaps there's a resource that isn't available but you're trying to load it?

Edit: Ok actually yeah the Wordpress page is linking to Google AJAX API and stuff like that, I experience horrible slowness with Google's CDN, maybe you're in a remote part of the world like me?

For what it's worth, I'm not seeing anything egregiously slow in IE8 here (performance is pretty close to being on par with Chrome), and I have a horrible internet connection.

Does not happen in Firefox 3.x

It does in Internet Explorer 7/8.

Problem seem to live in the js you are using. I doubt it'd be in jquery defaults, is mostly common to be in your custom js. You are asking for some fx, or some petition that gets IEs into trouble. (sorry, busy to dig much the code right now)

If it has worked well in other sites and you tested in IE browsers, just think of what you have done differently, or added, even if sounds crazy, as it will be faster to spot the problem doing so.