Why is Block Explorer so slow? Why is the Block Explorer so slow?  It used to work reasonably fast, and now it just spins and spins for 20 minutes?  Is it doing some kind of timing out?  

This is a very important utility for the whole Bitcoin network and it is in everyone's better interest that they can look up Bitcoin values without having to have an account somewhere.
On what pages is it slow? It only seems a little slower for me.

The "mirror" (which is actually usually the main server) went down for a while, so BBE switched to my server, which has much fewer resources.