> taking over 500ms and a complete page reload For me this is 45ms to transfer the 2 kB (compressed) of HTML; the whole process takes under 60ms total, which i

> taking over 500ms and a complete page reload For me this is 45ms to transfer the 2 kB (compressed) of HTML; the whole process takes under 60ms total, which is pretty darn close to "instantaneous" for the "complete page reload." EDIT: I'm in Texas, so most of this time is probably just round trip time to the west coast.