looking good
First part feels like a loading screen. (I was trying to click the apple)
Advice: I think some special effects like blurring can suck up performance.
You could use an image editing program to make the blurs and save them as png/gif images. ("Paintdotnet" is the name of the prog )
you can also screen capture the backgrounds and use the images instead.
If you are really strapped for performance. (FSCapture can do scrolling screen caps)