Well, I changed around the front page to no longer include the full feed descriptions from the news blog. That was a bit overwhelming, anyway, and tended to result in a huge amount of extra download requirements (over a meg, actually, in images). The formatting of that also just wasn't ideal, as some folks noted.
Plus, it's bothered me for a long time that as soon as one news article goes up, the ones before it get REALLY pushed off the screen. Just showing an index there on the news page of the last 30 entries really helps with that. And then of course folks can click on whichever ones are actually of interest to them. And there's 1MB less of data to be downloaded for people first visiting the site, and there's not this scary-huge page sitting there.
At any rate, by doing that as well as shrinking the images in the header scroll down to JPEGs, the total download size went down from 3MB to about 480KB. And it's GZip compressed now, too.
Doing a lot better on this:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.arcengames.com/YLIm3i0CThere's still more that could be done, but it's no longer so dire as it had been. And frankly, this ought to be smaller downloads than the old site now, thanks to not including all the blog content on there.