No one should expect the site to be perfect. We all know how releases are right?
My computers, tablets and phones - at home and at work, all load the site pretty quickly. The DOM starts rendering within a second and other than the async loading of thumbnails and the like the render is so quick that I don't notice it.
If the site is slow then I guess you're using a browser with a slow JS interpreter, or a very slow internet connection.
Rasz, every javascript that's included within the <body> will load after the DOM starts to render.
The site was just deployed. I would not care about things like optimize requests immediately either. Maybe they will in a few days, maybe not. Who cares?
If Dave wants to optimize requests then I'm sure the developers can configure a minifier for him, if not I'd do it for free.