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10 to 20 seconds? That's pretty speedy. I've seen pages take minutes to load. I've noticed the slowness you speak of for a couple of weeks now.

Depends on your location and your pipe, I suppose. I expect simple pages like this to be returned and rendered within a second.

That is slow for the HTML document to be returned (not rendered, but just returned).

He is saying that there are HN pages that take minutes to load.