What’re your guys’ thoughts on these performance test websites? I just did 3 tests: GTmetrix, PageSpeed, and WebpageTest. Some variants, of course, but some similarities. Yesterday, I was a grade C on GTmetrix, so a B is a cool improvement - Not sure where that came from, though. [gtmetrix.com_reports] [pagespeed.web.dev_analysis] [webpagetest.org_result] From what I can tell, seems like what’s most common with my site from these 3 tests are load times with Javascript & CSS. Is the JS even in my control, though? It lists the 2 URLs on GTmetrix as unused JS, but that’s stuff built into Discourse, isn’t it? https://forums.gonomad.me/assets/chunk.2c7ac65fdfc1f35c61b6.d41d8cd9.js https://forums.gonomad.me/assets/vendor.47fe1949ff0285dbc995d87a6ae0d449-223fd39128ca149073c28a57e41e969bafdb0a241e1149adab6918b27e7a3265.js And then I saw these listed as a 38.8s path latency, which kinda piqued my interest. How in the world would I optimize/fix that? [eeee] PageSpeed listed kinda the same thing with the JS/CSS render-blocking resources thing. The biggest JS files slowing the site down are: https://forums.gonomad.me/assets/chunk.2c7ac65fdfc1f35c61b6.d41d8cd9.js https://forums.gonomad.me/assets/locales/en-d255b87afa1b13a48418c34b7c45d8aa69fce223261f36c9a101fb022c7cb8e5.js But again, I think that’s something baked into Discourse? Finally, a direct Lighthouse test from Dev Console gave me a 63 score: [yyyy]

Is it related to the other topic where some users had loading issues? I would look at the hosting environment instead. :thinking: The result looks fine to me, though

[image] Arkshine: Is it related to the other topic where some users had loading issues? Sorta-kinda. That whole thing got me thinking, haha. [image] Arkshine: I would look at the hosting environment instead. That’s what I was mainly thinking as well, but eh, not liking some of the scores on these performance sites either (which, yeah, I guess could be host issues?)

Set up a CDN is always a good start. :rocket: [image] Enable a CDN for your Discourse Self-Hosting So you’d like to use a CDN to speed up worldwide access to common assets on your Discourse forum? You might want to go all-in and Set up file and image uploads to S3 (see also Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads). If you want a CDN without the added complexity of S3 and having two CDNs, this is the guide for you. The CDN will reduce some load on your server by letting the CDN serve those assets so that the server doesn’t have to. It also can speed things up by deliver…

I’ve read a lot about CDN’s lately on this optimization journey. Will check that out!

High-Traffic? Could tell me his server config?

Shouldn’t be high traffic. Only have a couple registered users. Only made the site maybe 12 days ago. Seems to be slow for some around peak hours where the server is hosted, but fine for others. The server/VPS specs are: 3GB RAM 2vCPU 35GB SSD 1Gbps Unmetered Bandwidth 1 x IPv4 KVM Ubuntu 22 EDIT: oh whoops, weren’t sure if replying to me or Robert

[image] Sammy: High-Traffic? Low enough for the site to remain very responsive at all times. 4GB/3 vcores + 2GB Swap.

CDN helps a bit if there is a lot of global audience, and/or VPS is behind a low end server. And PHP-based sites may get a bit better improvment but good caching policy helps more. Nature of Discourse has tendency break such improvements, or if wanted to say that way: it doesn’t need such helps. Those metric services have plenty of issues and quite seldom these can be read ”as is” tips.

[image] 45thj5ej: The biggest JS files slowing the site down are: https://forums.gonomad.me/assets/chunk.2c7ac65fdfc1f35c61b6.d41d8cd9.js https://forums.gonomad.me/assets/locales/en-d255b87afa1b13a48418c34b7c45d8aa69fce223261f36c9a101fb022c7cb8e5.js But again, I think that’s something baked into Discourse? Yeah, that’s what I’m a little confused about. Basically all of the points I’m being dinged on seem like they’re baked into Discourse (long JS load times/blocking, etc) + maybe a combination of my theme, so does that just mean a Discourse site will never have a good score on these, lol? I kinda doubt that, though. Forums, specifically.

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merefield (Robert) April 6, 2024, 3:23pm 6

Hmmm … it’s a lot of extra complexity for not much.

I’ve run a successful community for several years without having to use a CDN.

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