I saw a terrible example of this just yesterday, at what is essentially a business card of a website. A friend, who has a 100-Mbit internet connection, asked, "

I saw a terrible example of this just yesterday, at what is essentially a business card of a website. A friend, who has a 100-Mbit internet connection, asked, "Why is this image loading like I'm on dial-up?" http://www.velofeet.com/ http://www.velofeet.com/ It's a 1.7 MB PNG image scaled to 385px x 446px, and an 85% JPEG at the proper dimensions is under 50 kB.