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For some reason the jquery file just took 40 s to download but the html took ~146 ms. Since you include the jquery in your head tag (which is necessary), the whole page did not show for 40 s. Not sure why the js took that long. Maybe the server load increased between the time the page load the HTML and the time it loaded the js- doesn't seem likely though.

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My browser is not caching the jquery file. You can force the browser to cache it by using a header and some server side script. This should speed things up too, although I think the main bottleneck now is all those server to server requests.

Ok, now it loads jQuery from Google.

Cool. The page comes up much more quickly now. I don't know if this is due to the changes or what but it is much more responsive.

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