> total page is 1 Mbyte of text with 102 calls I don't think that this is commendable in any capacity. He should have put his money where his mouth is and pack

> total page is 1 Mbyte of text with 102 calls I don't think that this is commendable in any capacity. He should have put his money where his mouth is and package those thumbnails in maybe 5 - 10 sprite files and then serve them with CSS. This way he would have cut considerably on the network latency and fetched those resources faster without relying that the visitor/user would stay near above the fold region as the page is loading and not experience those empty cells waiting for the corresponding image to fill it up. His proposals like in everything with life, it's always easier said than done.