I tried to search for this, but didn’t find anything recently posted, so figured I’d ask to determine what’s normal and expected. I’ve recently come from other forums, and the 1st page load is reasonably quick, but finding with Discourse the page loads, but I’m presented with spinning circle whilst…

You can see how far the first page renders here. A cdn night help.

What version of Discourse are you at? How many posts are in the topics you are looking/testing?

[image] Jay Pfaffman: far the first page renders here Fast and Meta I suspect :wink:

Latest 2.8.x and only 30 or so users. I’m running on a dual core vCPU with 2g ram and SSD disk. As mentioned, all the metrics on the server are showing no load, so don’t understand why there is 5 second spinning before the page is fully rendered. So is there nothing to check or monitor, just insta…

Actually, it’s more like the server goes cold, and I’m just requesting a page refresh that hasn’t been done for a while - does the backend parts go to sleep or such that infrequent use means the first person is likely to wait a little longer than usual?

When you say 30 users, do you mean concurrent or that’s the entire user base? If it’s 30 concurrent users then you spec might actually be a but low. What is memory at on averse. 30-50-80%??? I happened to be looking at G analytics speed and performance charts, I noticed a change since we moved fr…

Is this a VPS at a host, or something else? How was it installed? Knowing which 2vcpu is helpful - not all processors are equal. Is anything between the instance and the clients? A reverse proxy or something like CloudFlare?

I finally opened up Developer Tools and can see some error messages… looks like a) fonts are missing or not found and b) that its using IP instead of the correct FQDN - of which I’m unsure if IP is correct The FetchEvent for "https://35.212.139.150/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf?v=0.0.9" resulted in a ne…

[image] Stephen: Is this a VPS at a host, or something else? How was it installed? Knowing which 2vcpu is helpful - not all processors are equal. Is anything between the instance and the clients? A reverse proxy or something like CloudFlare? Google cloud VM and nothing between the host and w…

How to determine performance bottleneck?

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g.slender (Grant) July 24, 2022, 12:22am 18

I take it I should just follow this guide more or less…

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How to determine performance bottleneck?

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