Application loads very slow !

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I have web applicaiton writting in asp.net 1.1. When the first page loads it
loads the data only in 2 controls. The data is poped upo by acooneting to
access DSN and using ODBCConnection and executereader. With simple queries
like

Select Title, Name from Table1 order by Titlle

Why the page loads very slowly when I request the page it takes almost 20-30
seconds to display the page. I am novice .net developer (basically, I am
classic ASP develoepr).

Where should I look into for the problem. While waiting how can I display
the page or some message saying "Page is loading..."

thanks