Yup. So, ATM:
Using old PyPI takes about 1m5s Using simple takes about 25s Using ppix takes about 8s
Thanks!
Again, I assume that the difference between simple and ppix has more to do with geography than the difference between serving statically and dynamically. The simple page has more links on it than the ppix page, because I haven't gotten around to scarf all links off of a restructured-text rendering of long description. I doubt that makes any difference. It will be interesting to try again after I fix that.
If you think that the /simple pages are correct, it might be easier to just mirror them instead of doing all the work yourself. I don't plan to take that service offline, unless experimentation shows it has serious flaws. Regards, Martin