Ok the speed of the google maps is based on the CLIENT.

 

I just did a wireshark on my client browsing Observium and on the Observium server.

 

The server didn’t go to any dns while my client did.

 

See attached;

 

So my question – how fast/well can the client access these api’s. google probably has a team of 500 people keeping them up and fast  24 x 7 J