Rats, that's what I thought. I'm having trouble trying to get gzip compression to work. I added an .htaccess file enabling gzip, to both the site root, and the FindingAids directory, as well as ms0361.gz, but I don't think the page is being delivered compressed. Can you perhaps test it and see if its compressed for you? Thanks! Nathan On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Brian Tingle <brian.tingle.cdlib.org@ gmail.com> wrote: > > If I split the page into say three parts and then combined them on one > page > > using the include function of PHP, would I still have to same problem? > > I don't think this will really help any, because the files would still > be combined together on your side > of the server and the large file will go over the wire and be loaded > into a ~5MB file in the local browser. > > The static HTML page is pretty much as fast as you can get on the server > side. >