Understanding my results: slow load times

[campvoyageur]

Thank you again for your response.

I'll go ahead and compress all these images. To be honest, I'm shocked that the guy who was contracted to build the site had not compressed it (I assumed he had). The site in general (since I have worked on it) has been sloppy to say the least. The file management is just a mess, and the way he built some of the pages just doesn't make sense to me.

But what's the deal with this First Byte time? I mean he insists that there is nothing he can do about it. I know we are hosted through him somehow. A little background on the guy: he runs an independent operation in TN, had a career change and has recently started doing web development/marketing. My boss pays him a monthly fee (not sure what he pays) and he manages the hosting, etc.

Again, I appreciate the feedback. I wish I was a little more savvy as to the technical aspects of our site.