It's a good question that I can't answer unfortunately.
In theory, any file I host on this site should be faster than an "offsite" file. This is the main reason you cannot link to an offsite avatar as that sites bandwidth may slow your images loading on my site. I haven't noticed any of your smileys taking a long time to load Merika so I'd have to say it's a non issue at this time.
I know some of the image files are large but don't think they should be an issue really. I will edit the larger gifs but the smaller ones should be fine.
I also just logged into my vitual hosting account with Canaca and have only used 2% of my monthly alotted bandwidth and only 1% of my available disk space. I wish Alexa would rate my forum speed soon so I can gauge it with other sites and see if it's really a big issue.
Merika, how long does it take to load a page on this site on dial up (on average)? Can you connect, try and few pages and give me an estimate?
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