That only adds about 200-300ms RTT I'd guess. I live in India and use many websites which are hosted in the US, and they work fine.

(Hello from Kenya)

There are usually CDN nodes in India. Cloudfront has edge nodes there, google's cdn does.

There's also a Mumbai AWS datacentre.

When you get far away from the common edges, it gets real noticeable.

~$ ping imgur.com

PING imgur.com (151.101.40.193) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 151.101.40.193 (151.101.40.193): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=342 ms

imgur.com works fine

~$ ping python.org

PING python.org (23.253.135.79) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 23.253.135.79 (23.253.135.79): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=267 ms

python.org works fine

news.ycombinator.com and reddit.com also works fine even though I'm logged in (there's about a 300ms, 700ms delay in the Network tab of Chrome's devtools for news.ycombinator.com and reddit.com)

PING imgur.com (151.101.12.193): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 151.101.12.193: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=499.633 ms 64 bytes from 151.101.12.193: icmp_seq=65 ttl=51 time=330.021 ms 64 bytes from 151.101.12.193: icmp_seq=66 ttl=51 time=557.491 ms 64 bytes from 151.101.12.193: icmp_seq=67 ttl=51 time=478.380 ms 64 bytes from 151.101.12.193: icmp_seq=68 ttl=51 time=400.365 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 69

PING python.org (23.253.135.79): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 23.253.135.79: icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=615.871 ms 64 bytes from 23.253.135.79: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=539.681 ms

I'm on an island lost in the middle of the Indian Ocean. But ping weren't that different (50 ms more or less) on the continent (I went to RSA and Namibia)