[Typo3] Website Very Slow in IE but fast in Firefox

[Sandy Matheson]

Can anyone suggest why our website might be so slow in Internet
Explorer?

Initially we thought the problem was the size of the menus and changed
these. This has reduced the code on most pages by something like 2000
lines - but the pages are still slow. In fact in IE6 they almost
appear to stop.

Take a look at:
http://portsmouth.anglican.org/info.html and any of the sub-pages.

In IE6 the status bar says 'Done' fairly quickly, the blue loading
indicator on the status bar goes virtually to 100% and then stops and
the page locks for anything up to 3-4 seconds! And I am using 2mb
Broadband!

Why would IE seem to load almost everything and then stop for seconds?

Any help or ideas gratefully received.

Sandy Matheson