I think it may be on your end or something in between. HN has been snappy for me and I visit it daily. Have you tried opening the web developer console in the

I think it may be on your end or something in between. HN has been snappy for me and I visit it daily. Have you tried opening the web developer console in the browser to see what is taking a long time? Tools -> Web Developer -> Web Console -> Network tab in Firerox If you have curl, you could try this: #!/bin/bash set -o posix TIMEFORMAT=%R time curl -# \ --connect-timeout 4 --retry 2 \ -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0" \ -H "Accept-Charset: UTF-8" \ -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" \ -H "Accept: */*" \ -H "Accept-Language: en" \ -H "Cache-Control: 0" \ -H "Connection: keep-alive" \ -w "# tcp:\t\t%{time_connect}\n# tries:\t%{num_connects}\n# dns:\t\t%{time_namelookup}\n# ssl:\t\t%{time_appconnect}\n# size_dl:\t%{size_download}\n# speed_dl:\t%{speed_download}\n# url:\t\t%{url_effective}\n# total:\t%{time_total}\n# Real Time:\t" \ -o /dev/null https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt The reason I suggest using robots.txt is so that multiple people can run that and compare notes to something constant. Here is my output: ./test.sh ######################################################################## 100.0% # tcp: 0.066 # tries: 1 # dns: 0.004 # ssl: 0.484 # size_dl: 158 # speed_dl: 285.000 # url: https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt # total: 0.554 # Real Time: 0.569