When you visit the page https://www.graphicdesignforum.com/ you can see that it doesn’t feel slow, but I guess Google wants extreme speeds. Is there anything I can do about it?
The site runs on DO, with 2GB RAM on 2 vCPUs and charts look healthy to me:
Google sees a flat html version of the site, you see the discourse application, so what you experience versus what the crawler measures will always differ.
Your site does seem to be running incredibly slow right now. I tried opening it in chrome and it didn’t load before I finished drafting this response. Which plugins are you running? Are there any other things hosted on this machine?
Just a quick update. I removed the plugins as recommended. The site is now significantly faster. I think it would be a great idea to make this suggestion more apparent on the plugins page or even on the dashboard, as it seems to be so important for performance. Thank you @Stephen.