I saw the title, misunderstood the nature of the delay, and thought “oh are you developing a SPA framework?” (no I’m not disparaging SPAs or their frameworks; this is a reference to, IIRC, SolidJS creator’s reasonable point that HN clones make for poor SPA performance demos because HN will always be faster). Anyway, I was very confused when the page loaded almost instantly, but thankfully the About page does too :)
HN clones aren't always slower than real HN! Maybe I'm cheating a bit, but I'm developing a HN client that is a offline-first desktop client, and it's way faster than official HN can ever be, as accessing local disk is most certainly faster than accessing network resources :) But again, I'm cheating a bit.