How fast is your network link, both in terms of throughput and latency for the sites you visit? The OP is browsing over a 256 kbps connection of unknown origin. They are likely impacted by latency and throughput constraints, which will exacerbate issues with sites that require a lot of requests or are resource heavy.

Making a site fast boils down to:

1) Making sure your server responds quickly.

2) Reducing the number of requests required for a page to load.

3) Reducing the number of bytes required for a page to load.

With an empty cache, for me, hacker news loads in ~700ms.

Under the same conditions, the dlang site loads in ~200ms.

That's half a second faster, which is definitely noticeable when clicking around.

Thanks for the numbers. A difference of 500ms would definitely be noticeable, especially if its in ones daily workflow

> Am I not visiting enough of the slow sites?

Do you use NoScript? I feel the same way because I usually run with JS turned off. Most things are pretty zippy despite using a computer from 2009.

Ah! that and flashblock might explain it.