I optimized the header images (They are even smaller than skeet's images byte wise). As for the header layout that's up to Christine, she's in charge of the general layout this year.

Popups will remain since I try to emphasize real weather statements over what we discuss, but I'll rearrange the order. Web output is gzip compressed so the text really doesn't add much to bandwidth. Images are dispersed over seveal round robin image servers at different locations, so that's pretty well handled too. Although I still try to optimize images for size where I can.

I'll let Christine know to look here.

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