As I said to prox, I took the site at face value (I didn't bother to view the source—couldn't be bothered). However, I'm now mildly curious why sites like this are so slow. Has anyone done a decent objective analysis of load speeds versus actual content versus the other extraneous dross?

Clearly, it'd be easy to compare 'apples' with 'oranges' thus quite a difficult analysis to get real figures.