Why is WebArchive so goddam slow?

Question

Every time when I use web.archive.org it is so slow(loading time is sometimes 20+ seconds) I just freak out and leave it. Any reason why fetching historical web pages is so slow.Here is screenshot of Google's PageSpeed Insights report: https://prnt.sc/1vq8led

dschuessler · Accepted Answer

Although I never experienced loading time of more than, say, 10 seconds, I always intuitively blamed it on the storage. Imagine you have an immensely large set of data, most of which is never being accessed. So probably most of your hard drives sit idle at any given time and the one with your stuff on it has to spin up before it can serve you.I may be wrong but I can't imagine a sensible alternative for serving such an extreme use case as the Wayback Machine does. I'm rather impressed that such a service exists in a usable state at all.

h2odragon · Answer

Entitled much?You find their jskirpt in need of improvement, I bet they'd love some help.

slater · Answer

It's a very popular site.

Why is WebArchive so goddam slow?

Every time when I use web.archive.org it is so slow(loading time is sometimes 20+ seconds) I just freak out and leave it. Any reason why fetching historical web pages is so slow.
Here is screenshot of Google's PageSpeed Insights report: https://prnt.sc/1vq8led

Entitled much?
You find their jskirpt in need of improvement, I bet they'd love some help.

It's a very popular site.