We have all experienced a degree of frustration when a web page takes longer than expected to load. The delay between the moment when the user enters a URL (or clicks a link) and when the page contents are finally displayed has two causes: the time needed to fetch the page contents from one or more web servers (known as the end to end network delay) and the time needed to render the content in the browser window (known as the page load time). In this article, we will explore the components of the former delay via a simple set of experiments.