[barrkel]

I must dissent on gorgeous: to me, it's a triumph of style over practicality.

It looks like a magazine page (perhaps one you'd see advertising architecture, or furniture) made flesh in the browser: the pictures are too big, the headlines are too big, the text column wanders from the left side of the page to the right, and it does all of this with highly excessive CPU consumption.

On Firefox it's particularly painful - on an i7 920, merely selecting text takes over a second - while even on Chrome, the fans start up and blare as a core hits 100% for several seconds as the page loads.

It's not down to custom fonts either, as I have those disabled in Firefox.

It all adds up to make me want to avoid the site in future, knowing I'll be assured of a laggy unpleasant experience.

[EwanToo]

Curious, I've got none of those problems visiting the site when running Firefox on a windows 7 PC.

I wonder if it's some kind of plugin issue, Firebug is a monster consumer of resources for example.

[WickyNilliams]

100% concur here. I have an i7 w/ 8GB RAM and the site is very jerky FF7. Everytime i switch to it's tab FF hangs for at least a few seconds. The design is also very bus, way too much going on.

That said, if the content is good enough, i can deal with that. Maybe I'll just block JS for this site since i suspect that's the primary issue here.

[77ko]

It does look and emulate a magazine page somewhat, but updated for the internet.

There are no speed issues on my laptop browser or ipad...

[Synaesthesia]

That's funny, I have no performance issues browsing with an iPad, an iPad 1 at that too.