No... DF is always quick for me. It's built on Movable Type, so essentially the whole thing is static HTML anyway, which is fast.
If you view source, you'll see a time at the foot of the document, which I presume is how long it took to render. According to that, the front page currently takes around 0.0014 seconds.
Perhaps you should see if there's some kind of network problem between you and the DF server which might explain why you're having these problems.
You are right, it's something about the network. On my notebook (physically in Europe) it took 25 seconds to wget DF's index page while from ssh session on server in California it was instantaneous. Though it's strange that it's so specific - I don't have problems with other sites.
If you view source, you'll see a time at the foot of the document, which I presume is how long it took to render. According to that, the front page currently takes around 0.0014 seconds.
Perhaps you should see if there's some kind of network problem between you and the DF server which might explain why you're having these problems.