Recently (maybe 3 weeks ago now) something appears to have changed which means that frequently pages which would have loaded quickly now load much more slowly. My experience has always been that this site is fast by the standards of the modern web - almost everything downloads and finishes rendering in well under a second. But the last few weeks has seen this significantly alter where some requests are taking a great deal longer - up to 15 or 20 seconds in some instances and very often 5 seconds or more. This is a noticeable degradation.

Investigating via the in-browser tools shows that this is a delay in initial HTTP response. It's not DNS or the TLS setup, both of which happen very quickly, but after that the page response is the one which takes a long time to start. This can happen on any page and it doesn't seem to be some more than others.

Hopefully whatever is causing this is easy to find and simple to resolve. It would be great to have the old, snappy performance back again. :-)

This was discussed in the CB at the end of last week. Since that confirmed that it isn't just me affected, I'm raising it here for TPTB to be made aware.