Recently, I keep encountering pages that "freeze for a moment" before showing data, and it's really not your internet connection... Many dApps rely on indexers/subgraphs to organize on-chain data beforehand. When you refresh, it has to chase new blocks and fill in missing events. If the node is busy or reorganizing, it's like a delivery arriving at a station and then having to sort packages. Plus, RPC (the interface for the frontend to query the chain) has rate limiting. When many people use it, queues form, resulting in the delays you see, and sometimes data briefly goes blank and then comes back.

Now I tend to ask projects directly: Is the data source a single point of failure? Are there backup nodes? How often is the index updated? Otherwise, the last step before a transaction is still spinning, which really messes with your mindset. By the way, I thought of the recent NFT royalty issue—secondary markets try to "skip steps" for liquidity, but creator earnings get squeezed. In the end, everyone is competing for faster and cheaper data channels... Anyway, I still prefer it to be a bit slower, but don’t suddenly give me fake data.