It is certainly a bit slow, slow quick, quick, slow today but then just about every site I have been to is. I don't think it is a problem peculiar to the VP.
"BT Internet have tracked down a global slowdown of the World Wide Web to a flat in Nottingham where the owner, said to be a ginger-haired man in his 50's, had fallen asleep on his keyboard and had sent over 100,000,000,000 copies of a pornographic Valentine card intended for a man in Cyprus."