Your page can be very fast and uses minimal resources and is hosted in a good place. But you always gotta watch out for proximity to user, time to first byte and dns resolution time. Perceived speed is highly affected by those.

It took 2 seconds to load the page on a fresh ec2 box:

    time_namelookup:  0.061
       time_connect:  0.100
    time_appconnect:  0.223
   time_pretransfer:  0.223
      time_redirect:  0.000
 time_starttransfer:  1.935
                    ----------
         time_total:  2.066