Yeah, it's just waiting on the server for most of that time in the first screenshot. Static (or cached) sites are going to be a lot faster than sites that have to re-render things every time.
Oh, maybe. I don't know. I'm just saying the waterfall is green, so it's waiting on the server most of the time, and I'm not sure why else that would be other than location.
Trying it myself, I can't reproduce that though. The first takes 40ms to connect to the server and 3ms downloading the page. The second take 40ms to connect, 40ms downloading the HTML, and then another 2000–3000ms downloading all the other assets.