Same for me in Poland right now - it takes around a second more for Kagi to produce the result than Google (with the delay happening after the interface of results page is shown). Doesn't bother me either.

What does bother me is the occasional failure to load anything at all, solvable with F5 key. But, being able to rank pages, or rewrite reddit.com to old.reddit.com more than compensates for this.

Ah I’m in Germany too!

Interesting, as I see a lot of other comments from Europeans saying they don’t notice this delay, maybe it’s Germany-specific?

I am also based out of Germany, and experience the lag too. I find it very annoying actually, to the point where I am contemplating switching. The lag isn't always there though...