I am now working at home, and the speed is a little better, but not what I had on the piclab server. What I get is the header and the sidebar, then a brief pause, then the title and a little text, then a long pause, some more text, another pause etc.
Curiouser and curiouser. The way the code works, it accumulates the text for the page as the script runs, then sends it all at once. Timing numbers look good for recent accesses, so something is slowing down after the script finishes. 0
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