why does cached page delay displaying?

	I check the news once daily.  washingtonpost.com is
particularly slow for lynx, takes seconds for a not-large page.  (It's
faster for almost all other browsers, including links.)  I was puzzled
today that articles that I saw yesterday still had short residence
times (they include a time that a link has been up, in minutes, hours,
days) and no new articles.  I refreshed, got a new page.  If lynx
serves a page out of its cache, why does it take as long to display as
a fresh page?  The same happened at albuquerquejournal.com, which
loads quickly.

russell bell