[sharth]

It took 49 seconds for me to load the __landing page__.

It would have been done in 3 seconds (which is still an insanely long amount of time) except that this image: https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nd/4.0/88x31.png took 49 seconds to load.

Chrome's network panel shows:

    Blocking ​  27.15 s
    DNS Lookup ​0.137 ms
    Connecting ​21.76 s
    SSL        ​20.59 s
    Sending ​   0.129 ms
    Waiting ​   78.344 ms
    Receiving ​ 1.252 ms

For a damn 5kb image.