Yes, I was also surprised to see that.
Just opened TLS website in Firefox, Inspect->Network->site's home page->Timings.
-> TLS Setup: 84ms, content generation+wait+receiving: 30ms ... Fun, huh? :-)
/e: non-CDN site, hosted on EC2, safe ciphers+hash algos without crypto HW accelerators etc. Average business website. With WordPress it is even worse. The CDN lets us terminate TLS and fetch origin in plain text + optimisations on crypto etc.
/e: non-CDN site, hosted on EC2, safe ciphers+hash algos without crypto HW accelerators etc. Average business website. With WordPress it is even worse. The CDN lets us terminate TLS and fetch origin in plain text + optimisations on crypto etc.