# Reduce initial server response time and speed up Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/reduce-initial-server-response-time-and-speed-up-discourse/216309>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 28, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reduce-initial-server-response-time-and-speed-up-discourse/216309 "2022-01-28T13:20:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Faizan\_Zahid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Faizan\_Zahid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Faizan_Zahid)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reduce-initial-server-response-time-and-speed-up-discourse/216309/1 "2022-01-28T13:20:51Z")

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Hi,

We are having issues with Core Web Vitals, we are on latest discourse version 2.9.0.beta1 on our site [What Companies are in the Finance Field? - How To Discuss](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/what-companies-are-in-the-finance-field/32980)

but our site speed is very slow and its failing all core vitals.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/3/a37e4184072e95c850004598f35827568f851126.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/8/98e2c3e94ce50e2aff02bb2b93f9dc6e439fb0c6.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/8/088a3221ab30b5416237928567ad97090a0db46b.jpeg)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/d/ed3a77be39a65626e5dea9c504a58b677d82e933.jpeg)

[https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhowtodiscuss.com%2Ft%2Fwhat-companies-are-in-the-finance-field%2F32980](https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhowtodiscuss.com%2Ft%2Fwhat-companies-are-in-the-finance-field%2F32980)

We are losing all traffic and SEO rankings and Google is de-ranking us due to slow speed of our discourse site. We need help.

As per [https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhowtodiscuss.com%2Ft%2Fwhat-companies-are-in-the-finance-field%2F32980](https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhowtodiscuss.com%2Ft%2Fwhat-companies-are-in-the-finance-field%2F32980) our server response time is slow and site needs server side and client side improvements to pass Core Web Vitals and get 100% pagespeed score.

One of the important things is the initial server response time, our server takes too long to respond and we have approx 250+ online users and our CPU is very powerful in specs, why is this happening , how to fix the speed of our site at client and server?

Site backup is approx 3.3 GB so you can get idea of how big our database is.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/2/02aca86aad0df313da765f75abf04b29547cfd3e.png)

Can anyone please help us speed our our site? Will be happy to sponsor this if needed. Please share your thoughts below or you can inbox me.

Thanks in advance

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