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Pretty sure this will still be a problem since it was all the custom images making lots of loading.

Unless the patterns are made into a sprite-sheet of sorts. Then not so much of a problem.

Apparently, after a whooping 5 minutes of testing, they concluded that it would increase the load times too much. Though I severely doubt they tried to limit the sizes properly, which is the same approach Facebook, Instagram and so on use. It might decrease the quality of images slightly, but in return it barely affects the overall loading times. That and there have been several forums in the past with an approach like this. The highest loading time that it ever reached was 9 seconds and on average it was 4-5 seconds. (Less on stronger connections.) Meaning it is very well possible.

So you'd be happy to wait 4-5 seconds to allow a page to load?