thank you, PageSpeed Insights says the CPU time (not delivery time) specifically for the second asset was almost 4 seconds, will a CDN like fastly still help with that? I currently use cloudflare with caching, is there a tweak on cloudflare I should use or just add something like fastly on top?!
That is indeed a big asset that will take time to parse and evaluate. As Discourse is a “Single Page Application” that cost is all paid upfront when the user first arrive, and this is a trade-off of our the approach, which is focused on making all the subsequent interaction, typical of forum usage, lightweight.
There are plan for EmberJS to drop mandatory JQuery, which will reduce this payload a fair bit, but we are years away of making this transition in Discourse.
Well, the pagespeed defaults force a Nexus 5X and a 3G connection, which even for Brazil (a third world country) is on the low end for today standards, so real world performance will depend on that.
