Firstly thank you. FireReady and the emergency.vic site are an incredible resource, especially yesterday sitting here in the Macedon Ranges watching events unfold in Gisborne and considering when and where we might evacuate. So to everyone involved, thank you and congratulations on delivering a rock-solid resource.
A couple of notes on the site and why I pointed people to the text version...
While the server response has remained fast, that's only the start of the loading as the JS fires and brings in all the map tiles etc. Right now over my iinet ADSL1 connection 1.2km from the centre of Kyneton (Telstra infastructure), the page response has finished in 786ms, but the page takes 15.07 seconds to finish loading resources, the last of which are all the map tiles. Most of these map tiles are pre-loads by Google, with all the tiles in view finishing within 7 seconds. 90 requests in total. The memory heap for this page was 43.8mb (Chrome 32, OSX)