The UK website http://www.vnunet.com/ is truly slow.  Maybe it is slow from my location in the USA, but some of the users on their forums have complained about the slowness of the site way back in 2006. 
There are plenty of external javascript sources which are probably slowing it down. 
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In HTML, one can reference a file that contains just javascript by using the javascript tag with the src attribute:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.server.com/myscript.js”></script>
This can have some benefits with regard to performance, except when the file is located on a different server that you have no control over.  Having more than one of these external javascript links […]

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Website performance is a reflection of the efficiency and credibility of your company or organization.  From the most technical power users to people just learning how the Internet works, a slow website is a slow website.
Sometimes the best way to avoid poor website performance is to create a checklist of things NOT to do.
First, here […]

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