I assume you mean the back-end is faster, because the page itself isn't. On the old version, the calendar pops up instantly, showing 2 months at a time and then disappears as soon as you select a date. On the new one, there's a detectable lag when you click on calendar, it only shows one month. More clicks, more bloated, visibly slower.

I'm not sure which is the worst thing about the new search page, the overlapping hard-to-read prices or the huge amount of whitespace that makes every aspect so much worse. (Search screen doesn't fit fully in the window any more; only 1/5 as many results appearing in the first page as before; site requires Google fonts, which I usually have blocked as they are also just extra bloat.)