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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. The delay was not on the HTML page.

Your humble anonymous tipster notes to their skeptical audience that browsers are capable of caching all sorts of things, even something as peculiar as an HTML page.

The reason there isn't a delay the second click is because the redirect is cached locally in your browser. Your humble anonymous tipster would appreciate if you do a little legwork…

Go to Twitter and click on a link going to any url on "NYTimes.com" or "threads.net" and you'll see about a ~5 second delay before t.co forwards you to the right address. Twitter w…