Improving Web Page Loading
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-pgload/index.html?dwzone=web

Logvinov, Eugene
IBM
2002

Abstract:

When your Web pages load, you can't afford to let people be bored by a blank page at the outset. This article gives some tips on how to avoid common page loading problems and give users that valuable information they want even as more downloading takes place.