Slow Load Times

Your page loaded immediately for me without any delay loading the Facebook files. Have you tried from multiple computers and/or browsers? My best guess is that your testing browser has an add-on installed that is conflicting (or intentionally preventing) the loading of Facebook code. There are a lot of 'hide yourself' type add ons that intentionally interfere with social network code loading on sites.

For the og:image, you should enable the Open Graph - Content plugin on your site. That will automatically set the Open Graph image tag on your pages, which are used by Facebook to generate the previews of your pages when linked to in status updates or other news feed stories. Having that tag missing would not in any way slow down the loading of your page... it just helps the promotion and branding of your pages when mentioned on Facebook.

I hope that helps, but please let me know if you continue to have issues.

Thanks,
Alex

Steve,
No problem for the help. When I went to your page, just so you know, it actually loaded very fast. We see a lot of slow loading sites around here (not usually from our stuff, btw), and yours definitely did not fall into that category.

I originally tried in Chrome, but I just tried in Safari as well (on a Mac). Still was pretty darn fast.

The only suggestions I'd have are:
* Try in Safari "Private Browsing" mode. That will eliminate other sessions and things that may somehow be slowing it down. If that helps, clear your browser history and cache. Something in there may be gumming up the works.
* Go to Preferences -> Extensions and make sure nothing is installed there that you don't want... or even just turn them all off with the big switch and test to see if that helps.

I hope that helps,
Alex