Is GAE Really GZipping My Content? Slow Response Times with GAE as CDN

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I am testing out Google App Engine as a free Content Delivery Network and it feels like it's taking a long time to serve up my content.

Why does this gae page take a say a half a second to download, while your typical stack overflow page downloads much faster even with a ton more content?

What am I missing here? All I have done is create an app and uploaded an image according to that tutorial, but content is being served very slowly it seems. Any suggestions? (Not considering Amazon or other CDNs right now, just looking for help with GAE).

Note: I am using Safari when I visit those links, maybe safari is causing problems?

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