JQuery loading

Hi all,

I have a website here: http://www.blend.uk.com, I have optimised it as much as possible, something that is obviously letting it down is the jQuery, I suspect it may be my fault. I have been learning jQuery throughout the build of this site, perhaps there are things that I could have done better.

If you look at the bottom in the banner on the homepage, you will see that a scroll bar is displayed whilst the jQuery is loading, ideally it would load faster.

I did move my Javascript to the bottom of the page, as recommended by Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom but the problem of loading was there also when the JS was at the top.

Appreciate any advice on how to optimise etc.

Thanks

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Enable GZIP compression and have a look at these webmaster guidelines

Also, on your google analytics page, there is a Site Performance section that provides you with direct advice.