It loads fast and fine for me in the DC area of the states.

Well, that's another matter. Slowness might come as a result of brokenness, but slowness by itself doesn't mean anything.

I host a web site on an LC III+ which is often compiling and multiple tens of megabytes in to swap, so I know what slow looks like:

http://elsie.zia.io/

(the page is about an LC II, but currently it's hosted by an LC III+)