Thank you for replying! I got a staggering number of unexplained downvotes before anybody was prepared to talk to me. Thinking about it I can well believe that

Thank you for replying! I got a staggering number of unexplained downvotes before anybody was prepared to talk to me. Thinking about it I can well believe that if you want people to stay on your site and click around, probably because you want to show them ads or products, a small delay will impact on the number of clicks. I would imagine that's not the motivation for most github pages sites though.