Ask HN: Is the whole Internet slow nowadays?

It seems to me that over the past few weeks/months that the Internet has really been bogging down on a site-by-site basis. 3rd party APIs for modules and logging, heavy client-side JS, cloud latency...it seems to me that all of these trends have conspired to make the web slower than browsing on a Treo 680. I routinely get mid-pageload hangs on sites of all levels of popularity and prominence, delayed/dropped clicks, and scrolling problems.

It seems to me that there are some bad architecture decisions gaining currency as standards.