# Discourse site slow **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-site-slow/246415 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [November 22, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-site-slow/246415 "2022-11-22T15:02:05Z") **Posts on this page:** 6 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![codergautam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codergautam/32/261083_2.png) [@codergautam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codergautam) #### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-site-slow/246415/1 "2022-11-22T15:02:05Z")
My [site](https://forum.codergautam.dev/) is really slow, I am using Digital Ocean 1gb ram ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/c/8/bc81306872aba0e7cb2a41592b31c25dd2e8998e.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/8/7/18734035e18164c952f4df0fb7ef8e72424fe580.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/0/7/407d175ac90e2b56137e3f8b49d750a2a62eb6d0.png) 4 unicorn workers with 256mb db shared buffers Is there any way I can speed up the site? ---
### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco) #### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-site-slow/246415/2 "2022-11-22T15:29:03Z")
Looks like you are using [Top Contributors Sidebar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/top-contributors-sidebar/215110) which causes extra 6 API calls to draw the site homescreen, which can overwhelm a site that is running on the bare minimum resources like yours. I’d recommend removing it and checking if performance is any better. ---
### Author: ![codergautam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codergautam/32/261083_2.png) [@codergautam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codergautam) #### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-site-slow/246415/3 "2022-11-22T15:49:51Z")
I have removed it, but it still seems a bit sluggish. But it’s not too bad, I guess it’s expected for a decently sized site on such bad specs? ---
### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco) #### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-site-slow/246415/4 "2022-11-22T16:09:14Z")
I’m seeing sub 200ms for topic lists and sub 400ms for topics, which is quite good performance all things considered. ---
### Author: ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S) #### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-site-slow/246415/5 "2022-11-22T21:25:40Z")
FWIW my forum on a 1G RAM Digital Ocean instance is using ```plaintext UNICORN_WORKERS: 2 db_shared_buffers: "128MB" ``` ---
### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system) #### Post date: [December 22, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-site-slow/246415/6 "2022-12-22T21:26:08Z")
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