Maybe I'm mistaken, but has the site been loading significantly slower as of late? Just navigating between different pages takes (no lie) at least five seconds.

5 seconds? Each page takes at least 20 seconds for me. You're lucky.

Elo is currently working on performance improvements, so the site has been and will be running slow for a while.

You might find the site loads faster when you're not logged in. If you just want to do some browsing, that's an option.