After I'm finished exams, I'll be going home for vacation, but when I return in a few weeks, I plan on overhauling my collection pages. There will be much more to behold in about three weeks!
My goal is to have no pages "under construction" by Jan 13, my site's anniversary.
Seriously, my page loads like 30MB+ on load. Sorry, not sorry!
For some browsers, (especially on some of my pages -- definitely easel) you should refresh the page a few times after loading, depending on your internet speed and browser, just to make sure that everything is loaded properly.
Update: most of that was from one or two 10MB+ gifs. I optimized them.