Web connection delay

[ebolisa]

Hi,

This link displays the local country data and the server response is immediate:

However, getting the same data from using the below code, takes some time. Why the delay?
TIA

#!/usr/bin/python
import requests as req
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import os, time

def get_tz():
    url = 'http://geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup'
    #read file
    r = req.get(url)
    if(r.status_code == req.codes.ok):
        root = ET.fromstring(r.content)
        # parse an xml file by name
        TZ = "'" + root[12].text + "'"
    t = r.elapsed # returns datetime.timedelta(0, 1, 666890)
    #print('elapsed time: {}'.format(t))
    print(TZ)
    #update time 
    os.environ['TZ'] = TZ
    time.tzset()

get_tz()