[onion2k]

Those 104ms of latency don't make a dent.

Aren't there several requests to complete though? Assuming 5 synchronous requests before the first byte of your web page is rendered (a DNS lookup, a TLS connection to establish (which requires 2 requests), then a preflight request, and finally the actual request) that's a full half a second just on the flight time regardless of all the other costs. That's an extra 10% on top of the 5s it takes for Reddit to load. Subsequent requests would be faster but generally it's the first page load people really notice.

[phamilton]

Just a nit, but aren't DNS lookups going to be independent of distance to us-east-1?

[onion2k]

That depends on where the name server is. If a website is only hosted on us-east-1 it's common to see the canonical name server being in the US as well.