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Yesterday (around 16hours ago);
Singapore (residential ISP and ExpressVPN) , Malaysia (ExpressVPN) and Phuket (AzireVPN) IPs were slow. However, my self-rolled VPN on Singapore's Digital Ocean VPS datacenter was fast. Ditto Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1/Warp+ tunnel on my iDevice. Not sure what datacenters my other VPN providers are employing.
Right now;
Seems like speeds are better using my local residential SG (no VPN) IP. Still slower than normal, but at least a full page loads within 3-5 seconds (vs near-instant on normal days). Thing is, at least for me, it's been like this for the last two days. Image loading speeds around this time (afternoon 2- 5PM SG time/GMT+8) were good and dropped massively later in the evening (starting around 8PM up until after midnight), and only for Mangadex, so I can't say whether it's it's an issue with my ISP/region since everything else - other manga/image sites, heavy tech/news sites, downloads, streaming, etc - is fast. Don't think it's DNS related, since the page lookup is as fast as always. It's just the images and buttons that are excruciatingly slow to load. My first guess is a CDN issue of some sort, possibly coupled with load-balancing issues on said CDN point at a particular time of day, but I'm no web expert.