What’re your guys’ thoughts on these performance test websites? I just did 3 tests: GTmetrix, PageSpeed, and WebpageTest. Some variants, of course, but some similarities. Yesterday, I was a grade C on GTmetrix, so a B is a cool improvement - Not sure where that came from, though. [gtmetrix.com_re…

Is it related to the other topic where some users had loading issues? I would look at the hosting environment instead. :thinking: The result looks fine to me, though

[image] Arkshine: Is it related to the other topic where some users had loading issues? Sorta-kinda. That whole thing got me thinking, haha. [image] Arkshine: I would look at the hosting environment instead. That’s what I was mainly thinking as well, but eh, not liking some of the sco…

Set up a CDN is always a good start. :rocket: [image] Enable a CDN for your Discourse Self-Hosting So you’d like to use a CDN to speed up worldwide access to common assets on your Discourse forum? You might want to go all-in and Set up file and image uploads t…

I’ve read a lot about CDN’s lately on this optimization journey. Will check that out!

Hmmm … it’s a lot of extra complexity for not much. I’ve run a successful community for several years without having to use a CDN.

High-Traffic? Could tell me his server config?

Shouldn’t be high traffic. Only have a couple registered users. Only made the site maybe 12 days ago. Seems to be slow for some around peak hours where the server is hosted, but fine for others. The server/VPS specs are: 3GB RAM 2vCPU 35GB SSD 1Gbps Unmetered Bandwidth 1 x IPv4 KVM Ubuntu 22 …

[image] Sammy: High-Traffic? Low enough for the site to remain very responsive at all times. 4GB/3 vcores + 2GB Swap.

CDN helps a bit if there is a lot of global audience, and/or VPS is behind a low end server. And PHP-based sites may get a bit better improvment but good caching policy helps more. Nature of Discourse has tendency break such improvements, or if wanted to say that way: it doesn’t need such helps. T…

[image] 45thj5ej: The biggest JS files slowing the site down are: https://forums.gonomad.me/assets/chunk.2c7ac65fdfc1f35c61b6.d41d8cd9.js https://forums.gonomad.me/assets/locales/en-d255b87afa1b13a48418c34b7c45d8aa69fce223261f36c9a101fb022c7cb8e5.js But again, I think that’s something baked…

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Set up a CDN is always a good start.

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