Hi,
I reached this thread looking for improving performance and found that meta.discourse.org does have a huge payload too:
1 single JS file stands out with size 1.69MB
The same application js file is loaded on my discourse install too:
I tried a fresh install of discourse with no extra plugins and this file is still there with same 1.69 MB size.
Is there a way to reduce the size of this file, if we going by your recommendations to keep the page size below 1 MB?