Seems like w3m is slower than Netscape or Lynx. Why?
w3m renders a HTML document in two passes. Therefore it displays the documentnot before having read the entire document. Netscape or Lynx display the document before having read the whole page, and therefore seem faster. Loading time doesn’t decrease when loading a previously seen page w3m doesn’t have its own cache. Therefore, it reads the document from the server each time it accesses it. If possible, use a cache server.
