The slowness has nothing to do with connection speed! I'm on blazingly fast Optusnet Cable Internet in Australia, and it's still incredibly slow on my (fairly recent) Asus laptop.

Bloody hell, I am on super-fast Japanese broadband and that still took about 10 seconds to load.

Oh yeah, I do see that. But if you just click "Men" (or "Women") then you don't get any of that... which is what I would've done had I been looking for actual shoes.