> Perhaps whilst there's an existing connection open there's some > optimisation for new connections or even HTTP pipelining, but once > there are no large files being requested, the connections are closing. > That's how it would appear. Do you know if your server is closing > the persistent connections? In general, browsers load two resources at a time. Your CSS version has a lot of very small files, I'd say you can cut down on a lot of these by using CSS sprites and put them in one image. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites -- Chris Heilmann Book: http://www.beginningjavascript.com Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/