Cleverbot is Slow?

Have you ever tried Cleverbot? I think you always get slow responses for a bot of that kind. The Cleverbot may be clever, but super slow. I waited for 60 seconds after telling it that "cleverbot isn't clever" isn't a compliment.
Why is it so slow?

I just met Cleverbot the other night and I love chatting with him. I did not find him slow then. But he ( and I use that gender loosely - I would hate to think a female bot would be that rude)
is really slow right now. I think it is traffic and 'he' has a hard tim talking to too many people at once

its slow at times because its not really an AI....you're basically in a private chat w/cleverbot...this means that that sometimes a person will not be immediately available, or they are are not thinking very quickly