Put off loading my theme banners to speed up Drupal I'm currently using the Marinelli theme for a project.  It loads ALL the top banner pictures before showing the page.  Very slow.  Results in a big download size for the home page.  Is there a way to get Drupal or the theme to put off loading all but the first banner pics when it displays the page.  See my screen capture of pingdom.com

Dave
I think you're looking for a technique called "lazy-loading" to implement on your pages. Lazy loading means that the images are only loaded upon viewing them. 

You can use the Lazyloader module as a start to implement it, however how it will exactly work for your site is completely dependent on your Drupal theme and module(s) configuration. One useful example (and starting point) is this blogpost, which explains how to implement the layloader module in combination with a slideshow.