Over the past few days I see 20 - 40 second page load times for any page I've tried to access through https://perlmonks.org. For a typical page fetch (Perl Monks Discussion in this case) Firefox's Developer Tools reports:

Request Timing /?node=Perl Monks Discussion
Blocked:        8.22 s
DNS Resolution: 0 ms
Connecting:     203 ms
TLS Setup:      8.10 s
Sending:        0 ms
Waiting:        13.93 s
Receiving:      405 ms

Request Timing /?node=list replies toggle javascript
Blocked:        6.77 s
DNS Resolution: 3 ms
Connecting:     204 ms
TLS Setup:      6.56 s
Sending:        0 ms
Waiting:        394 ms
Receiving:      0 ms

Finish: 36.20s (The two fetches above are somewhat overlapped. Other f
+etches are ignored.)

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In reply to perlmonks.org still/again slow by GrandFather

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