# Intermittent slow page load times
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-slow-page-load-times/214187
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** unsupported-install
**Created:** [January 7, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-slow-page-load-times/214187 "2022-01-07T18:51:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@anaqreon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anaqreon)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-slow-page-load-times/214187/1 "2022-01-07T18:51:23Z")
My Discourse site (only a few dozen users and very little activity so far) exhibits intermittent slow page/component load times that can be anywhere from 3-20 seconds. This occurs approximately once every ten page loads (as I repeatedly press keys G, J to cycle through posts, for example). During these events, the spinner spins and the user has to simply wait.
I have been watching the browser dev console and the server log as I navigate around trying to identify the cause of these slow load times, and I have identified at least two of the culprits: `/timings` and `123.json?track_visit=true&forceLoad=true` (where `123` is the topic ID).
Changing the “flush timings secs” site setting does not seem to change the behavior.
Does anyone have advice how to troubleshoot this problem? A few seconds here and there would be tolerable, but I fear that these frequent 5-20 second load times will stifle use of the platform.
Our instance is [deployed on Kubernetes](https://gitlab.com/nsf-muses/deployment/kubernetes/-/blob/5ab9d66ee5d408b5c9489ea7ac8c2d12ad557208/charts/discourse/Chart.yaml) using the [Bitnami Helm chart](https://bitnami.com/stack/discourse/helm), [Docker image `docker.io/bitnami/discourse:2.7.8-debian-10-r0`](https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-discourse/tree/2.7.8-debian-10-r0/2/debian-10). I know this is not an officially supported deployment method but it is at least a well-known, reproducible deployment.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-slow-page-load-times/214187/2 "2022-01-07T18:53:45Z")
See [Troubleshooting Bitnami Installations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-bitnami-installations/142538).
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### Author:  [@anaqreon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anaqreon)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-slow-page-load-times/214187/3 "2022-01-07T19:05:17Z")
I knew I should have kept our deployment method a secret 😆 Thanks for the link.