Very Slow Loading of External Text from JSON Feed.

Can Anyone help me speed this up. Starting to think it is the Nature of Jquery and not Animate.

var tl = this

$.get("https://give.benevolentenabler.com/api/custom/totals/1", function (data) {

var txt = tl.theTime;

var fill = canvas.getContext("2d").createLinearGradient(7, 0, 0, txt.getBounds().height);

fill.addColorStop(0, "#FFFFFF");

//fill.addColorStop(0.5, "#0F0");

fill.addColorStop(1, "#ffd800");

txt.color = fill;

        txt.text = "$" + data.raised;

    if (!data.raised.length) {

        tl.gotoAndPlay('Slide2');

    }

})

.fail(function (e) {

alert("BROKEN");

    tl.gotoAndStop('Slide2');

});

tl.stop();