New Site: Loading Pages

A very common question these last 3 days has been "why would you make your site so much heavier to load?  Won't it kill your server?"  And yes, it's true, in per-page terms, this site is much heavier than my old one.  The background alone eats 100KB.  It's quite massive.

Cost of page loads

Page loads are a big part of why I moved to this new structure.  You see, every post on the site (and every book, too) has a big, shiny image attached to it.  I know from experience (Google Analytics) that...