my i5-6200U with firefox/linux is about 10 years old. I used a variety of add blocking and fingerprint blocking techniques. Cloudflare often complains and blocks me.

This page loaded pretty much instantly (certainly in the time it took to switch to the background tab I loaded in). But then ffmpeg is written by old school engineers with old school ways of working. Their social media accounts are a hilarity of trolling worthy of slashdot in its peak.