If there's enough threads on the web server being blocked by waiting for WordPress (99% of the websites that HN hugs to death are WP), then once the HTML has lo

If there's enough threads on the web server being blocked by waiting for WordPress (99% of the websites that HN hugs to death are WP), then once the HTML has loaded (which, in curl, would mean the loading is complete) you are still waiting for threads to serve you the css, images, and scripts. I think in total, the curl loading time was about half of the in-browser page. Both loaded in the end, I just happened to be more patient with curl because I know the server is busy and it's not just a stupid javascript dependency that I'm waiting on.