Pi hole slow at loading some sites

Pi-hole installs lighttpd to provide the block page and a response to queries on port 80. This allows us to show a blocked page when someone visits a blocked domain over HTTP. This is preferable over 0.0.0.0 because that setting will result in errors in place of ads, instead of an empty element when using Pi-hole's block page.

See here for the HTTPS (port 443) issue: