After verification, your hits, for this background worker process, are executed within 1/10th of a second and usually 0.5/10th. So, basically, you wouldn't notice anything visually.
If you experience slow Internet transfer, then this would be something else.
I can enhance those transactions but that would not change anything. Even if it would answer at 0.02 or 0.01, you're saying it takes a long time.
See if you get the same behavior from another end point.