title: What is the fastest way(/make loading faster) to serve images and other static content on a site?
body: <p>Ours is an e-commerce site with lots of images and flash(same heavy flash rendered across all pages). All the static content is stored and served up from the webserver(IHS clustered-2 nodes). We still notice that the image delivery is slow. Is this approach correct at all? What are the alternative ways of doing this, like maybe serving up images using a third party vendor or implementing some kind of caching?
  P.S. All our pages are https. Could this be a reason?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Edit1: The images are served up from
    https too so the alerts are a non
    issue?</p>
    
    <p>Edit2: The loading is slower on IE and
    most of our users are IE. I am not
    sure if browser specific styling could
    be causing the slower IE loading?(We
    have some browser specific styling for
    IE)</p>
  </blockquote>