i have site with a lot of photos like yours, and see how it loads http://xn----8sbzdfdkkigfrhec4km.xn--p1ai/albomy/granada/user?uid=365-cportal
it russian, but server in Germany ... I'm using nginx with cache and gzip

there is some strings in my .htaccess

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

    # Enable expiration control

    ExpiresActive On

 

    # Default expiration: 1 hour after request

    ExpiresDefault "now plus 1 hour"

 

    # CSS and JS expiration: 1 week after request

    ExpiresByType text/css "now plus 1 week"

    ExpiresByType application/javascript "now plus 1 week"

    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "now plus 1 week"

 

    # Image files expiration: 1 month after request

    ExpiresByType image/bmp "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/gif "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/jp2 "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/pipeg "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/png "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/tiff "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/vnd.microsoft.icon "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/x-icon "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/ico "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/icon "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType text/ico "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType application/ico "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/vnd.wap.wbmp "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType application/vnd.wap.wbxml "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType application/smil "now plus 1 month"

 

    # Audio files expiration: 1 month after request

    ExpiresByType audio/basic "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType audio/mid "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType audio/midi "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType audio/mpeg "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType audio/x-aiff "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType audio/x-mpegurl "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType audio/x-pn-realaudio "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType audio/x-wav "now plus 1 month"

 

    # Movie files expiration: 1 month after request

    ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType x-world/x-vrml "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType video/x-msvideo "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType video/mpeg "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType video/mp4 "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType video/quicktime "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType video/x-la-asf "now plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType video/x-ms-asf "now plus 1 month"

    </IfModule>

and mod_deflate is "ON" too

Hi Vlad, looking at your page it loads around 4 seconds, quite an impressive feat!
http://xn----8sbzdfdkkigfrhec4km.xn--p1ai/albomy/granada/user?uid=365-cportal
I'll see what I can do on my site with your tips! Thanks a lot!

Hello Ken,

The "PHP" part is actually < 1 second which is already extremely impressive but as Vladimir posted above, it's most likely that those images are causing the hiccups.