Hi, I’m wondering if there is any feature that combines all/multiple javascripts into one and highly reused images using css sprint? I do see it takes bit of time to load the website during the first time and then is very fast from second load onwards. Any recommendation?

If you are using our official install and have SSL enabled (eg access your site with https://yoursite.com) then you get HTTP/2 This means we send all the assets more efficiently and that sprites for avatars and various other hacks that were needed in the HTTP/1.1 era are no longer beneficial.

Ah yea I understand. Never thought http2 comes by default with the discourse DO image/installation script. [Screenshot 2019-12-31 at 01.18.11] I’m not an advance in this tech stack, I did wonder why there is a mix of h1.1/h2 request. Is it a browser choice? Also, to reduce the time for first page load, is there a topic/discussion here about page optimisation/cdn/server side settings to read about specifically for discourse? I have 7 to 10 seconds loads time in a private window and it’s a vanilla setup and a small forum.

You can search on scaling and scalability using the magnifying glass above. :wink: You can also find links to codinghorror’s blog from posts he shares here in the #site-feedback:blog subcategory . This is a really useful post on a related topic that you might miss: [image] Performance, Scaling, and HA requirements Self-hosting Number of posts made is about the least interesting metric, even more so over such a long time period. Page views is far, far more relevant for determining needed resources. It can be a bit tricky to compare the requests and traffic patterns of a “traditional” mostly-server-generated forum to a Discourse forum, because Discourse is very API-driven, so we often serve multiple HTTP hits per “page view”, but we tend to service each HTTP request a lot quicker, so the forum appears to be a lot more…

[image] steven_so: I’m not an advance in this tech stack, I did wonder why there is a mix of h1.1/h2 request. Is it a browser choice? If you pay attention to your print screen you will see the lines showing HTTP1.1 aren’t real requests, but just resources coming from cache.

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steven_so (Steven) December 31, 2019, 1:34am 4

Also, If there is a blog/category section, I would love to read about engineering/scalable decision that the discourse team made while building the forum.

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