My personal site, hosted on gh-pages, has started taking upwards of 20-25 seconds when loading for the first time. Subsequent loads are fast/typical of a static web page.

My personal site is: http://kuanbutts.com/ which maps to http://kuanb.github.io

I can consistently recreate the slow page load by opening FireFox, going into a private browser window, and going to kuanbutts.com. Page load will typically take between 20-30 seconds. This behavior is not isolated to FF - I can also recreate this pattern in Chrome and Safari as well (using incognito modes). I am finding little online regarding this issue and trying to understand what is going on (or receive feedback on how I might interogate this).

Here I watched my network tab in one instance and captured a 1.3 minute time expenditure related to the “initial connection” step:

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When I curled my address, a similar performance, time-wise occurred (30+ seconds to receive the index.html content). The logs I captured with verbose logging turned on were as follows:

➜ ~ curl kuanbutts.com --verbose
* Rebuilt URL to: kuanbutts.com/
* Trying 144.217.33.197...
* TCP_NODELAY set

Connection failed
connect to 144.217.33.197 port 80 failed: Operation timed out
Trying 192.30.252.154...
TCP_NODELAY set
Connected to kuanbutts.com (192.30.252.154) port 80 (#0)

> GET / HTTP/1.1

> Host: kuanbutts.com

> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0

> Accept: /

>

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK