Out of curiosity, I got gmail over to the basic HTML view. Hard refresh of the page has it returning all my emails within 680ms at which point I can click on s

Out of curiosity, I got gmail over to the basic HTML view. Hard refresh of the page has it returning all my emails within 680ms at which point I can click on stuff. For some reason there's a bit of a delay on the favicon, but even then that's all loaded and usable in < 2 seconds. With the new UI I can sort of do something around the 15 second mark, it becomes completely useable by 30 seconds, but there's still a bunch of stuff happening over the network. It finally got quiet around the 1 1/2 minute mark. This is absolutely nuts.