Why are visitors leaving my website immediately? I have a CDN and everything?

[eve]

my website is http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com, I made it a couple months ago and it was loading slow and over half of my visitors are leaving immediately everyday. So, I bought a content delivery network hoping that would help, yet my visitors are still leaving. I had a couple people say they left the site without even trying to let it load because it took so long, but that was before CDN.
I have larger images on my site, which I want it to stay that way, I know by reducing the size I am sure the site would load faster, but are there any other suggestions, do i need to get multiple CDNs?
Does my site just suck? I know people are interested in that kind of stuff but I just can't seem to getting it.

[MADLUV]

the photography is pretty sweet but to keep .. i i flipped through your full site in under 2 minutes..
maybe add more content and words to back up the content. Maybe talk about how the photos were taken and or where your at what was going through your mind. How you could of done better.. what wasn't captured on film..
remember reading takes time
looking at photos i can scan through 10000 images in under 5 minutes looking at the ones i like large view as well.

i do like the double tub one with the stair case.. what sort of building was that?? is it haunted.? What can i learn from that photo.. was that a dr's office or some awesome suite from a hotel with a wall missing.. lol
what is it what do you think it is...

get my point.

[Jake]

The web term for that is the Bounce Rate, actually to simplify tracking it may be defined as the percentage who never navigate beyond the home page. You can see the bounce rate for larger sites at Alexa.com it's commonly over 50%, one study reported at a similar saw a 20% bounce rate wit a 5 second load time, it was reduced to 5% with a .5 sec. load time. (Google's internal design guidelines call for .5 sec. page load times) that's hard to accomplish with wordpress sites. Of course the quality of the traffic has a big effect, search engine traffic sill tend to stick better than paid traffic, particularly cheap generic paid traffic which might actually be robots, a consistent short view time is one clue of robot traffic.

Many photos are not of playgrounds which might lead some to think the site name doesn't match the content...some compression utilities do a better job of optimizing for the web, you could probably get the average image size to 1/2 with careful compression quality settings.

I took the time to download Miranda-Castle-Chateau-de-Noisy-Abandoned-Belgium-1
originally 127 K, I re-compressed at 50% and 33% quality and got 72k and 49k files with no noticeable degradation. Your deteriorating structures in particularly can tolerate some compression artifact.

Load time seems decent now, FYI the load time of a wordpress site is dependent on the speed of the mySQL server, which may be a separate underpowered computer on some hosts. There is a Wordpress plugin, something?SuperCache that allows assets to be stored on Amazon S3 or cloud to accomplish results similar to your CDN, Amazon is pretty cheap.