Well, for me that's only true for the first time I visit a website. HN, for example, loads in less than half a second, due to using a CDN (i.e. Cloudflare). W

Well, for me that's only true for the first time I visit a website. HN, for example, loads in less than half a second, due to using a CDN (i.e. Cloudflare). With CDNs, the RTTs are small enough to not matter.