if you click Topics -> News[0] it takes 2.7 seconds. They should throw that subdomain behind https://memcached.org/ (and not use php lol).
Unrelated, seems like I can't listen to podcasts. There's an <audio> tag (which doesn't use data unless you click on play if you set preload="none" [1]), so that's an interesting choice.
$ curl http://thin.npr.org/t.php?tid=1001
[...]
Total wall clock time: 2.7s
$ ping thin.npr.org
[...]
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 76.407/78.359/86.985/2.442 ms
Unrelated, seems like I can't listen to podcasts. There's an <audio> tag (which doesn't use data unless you click on play if you set preload="none" [1]), so that's an interesting choice.
[0] http://thin.npr.org/t.php?tid=1001
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/au...