# How to increase site speed **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Created:** [April 11, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-site-speed/60791 "2017-04-11T16:42:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![Anil\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Anil\_Gupta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anil_Gupta)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-site-speed/60791/30 "2018-01-09T23:47:55Z")
Hi, I reached this thread looking for improving performance and found that [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) does have a huge payload too: 1 single JS file stands out with size 1.69MB ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/e/9e4593c100805d0670452a9388f71d389f0c08b4.png) The same application js file is loaded on my discourse install too: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/3/1343585bd4785614765c10fb39629746be5a2550.png) 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? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-site-speed/60791)._