It's fast because everything is text based. Very little CSS. Very few files to download. The language which generates the page is irrelevant, when the page you

It's fast because everything is text based. Very little CSS. Very few files to download. The language which generates the page is irrelevant, when the page you're viewing changes rarely (doesn't change from user to user). It's very cacheable which means you might just be loading a static file served by a regular web server. Combine that with the above, and you get your answer. Compare this to http://qbixstaging.com/Groups http://qbixstaging.com/Groups, what do you see?