Hi everyone, I installed Discourse and everything works, but unfortunately the site is extremely slow when opening for the first time. I installed Discourse on aaPanel and configured nginx, although nginx is down, the site works. Unfortunately, it’s very slow when opening for the first time and then…

It seems simple static file requests like the discourse logo already take a very long time. https://endownload.com/uploads/default/optimized/1X/_129430568242d1b7f853bb13ebea28b3f6af4e7_2_180x180.png → 14kb and 700ms The 342kb font file is served at a mere 83 kB/s, taking over 4 seconds. For compar…

Ideally you shouldn’t be using any “panel” on the server you use to host discourse. Your VPS provider is likely over provisioning their resources and that is the likely reason for the slow load, another contributor could be slow or congested network at your provider’s end or ISP’s end. Subsequent …

Thanks dr. I tried to remove the logo but it is still slow, maybe a few seconds less!

:laughing: Exactly! I have to change VPS, or I try cloudflare.

My Discourse website is very slow to load the first time

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) November 17, 2025, 4:45pm 5

The logo is not your problem, it’s a symptom.

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