My forum is scoring very badly in Lighthouse performance category and is being penalized on Google [image] [image] Im wondering is there any way to improve this speed? my site has around 2k members, 100k posts, and 5k topics. I am using 4gb ram plan from DigitalOcean. [image] In discourse, I …

[image] gautam: is being penalized on Google Beacuse of that? I’m totally sure it is not.

According to Google Search Console, in the performance section it shows that the site’s loading time is slow. I’ve heard that PageRank considers this when ranking websites.

And yet it is not slow and Google is not penalting you. Out there is huge amount of mis- and disinform about PageRank and this claim is one of that category. Otherwise optimizingquestion is really is easy. You can’t do much. On Wordpress there would be options because PHP and how sites are working …

[image] Jakke Flemming: And yet it is not slow and Google is not penalting you. Out there is huge amount of mis- and disinform about PageRank and this claim is one of that category. This isn’t accurate. Page speed has been a search signal for a pretty long time now, albeit not a high ranking …

Yes, but not in that secondlevel in the meaning it woulf affect PageRank and true/meaningfull SEO.

It does. Evaluating page experience for a better web | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers Search has added a variety of user experience criteria, such as how quickly pages load and mobile-friendliness , as factors for ranking results.

[image] gautam: I do have quite a few plugins installed If you have a way to check the speed with all these disabled, that might be quite informative. Discourse isn’t inherently slow - my lighthouse score is 100. If you can, measuring with half of them enabled will allow you to narrow down p…

Hello :waving_hand: Just an other approach… I always had problem with DO this type of servers. It was slow for my community activity. So I move the server to Vultr. I think Vultr High Frequency servers are the best in this price. Discourse much prefers the single core faster CPU then multicore slowe…

[image] Don: Vultr Thanks for the tip. Do you have measurements on Vultr servers somewhere?

Compared with DO I haven’t but I will make a rebuild with timer once I can, if I remember correctly it usually about 5min and also check the server actual performance. I will update this post. :slightly_smiling_face: CPU info: Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS) cpu MHz: 3695.998 ▶ cpuinfo The …

Need tips on making my forum faster

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Lilly (Lillian ) November 5, 2023, 12:02pm 12

Discourse who’s online plug-in can slow things down.

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