how to speed up requests from other end of planet?

[pmeenan]

2 techniques:

1 - Google uses a CDN (their own, but a still CDN) which puts servers around the world close to users so visitors in Japan connect to a server in Japan. You can do the same with a commercial CDN (Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, etc).

2 - Google's TLS handshake is tuned so it only needs one round trip. Yours looks like it may be using 2. A CDN will likely already be tuned but if you want to optimize your server's negotiation, start at https://istlsfastyet.com