I'm assuming it's because there's liike 400 people F5'ing it every ten seconds.
Only 400 people would do that? They must be so ashamed to be such a large named organization with such crappy servers lol. The traffic has probably spiked but I would say it's probably MUCH higher then 400
thats happening to me 2 they must be updating
Lol again if they site slows to a crawl for each update they put on their site they have some serious problems. Modern CMS (content management systems) don't actually cause slow-down like that to publish content.
Trust me guys I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night...err...I mean I am a web designer/dev by trade