I hope this isn’t too nitpicky of feedback, but while browsing around the site, I can’t help but notice a lot of Loading skeletons, both on the front page and the product browsing pages. Taking a glance at network requests in dev tools, I’m noticing a lot of requests taking several seconds to load, from 7 seconds all the way up to 52 seconds, and some requests even timing out. Even the initial request to the homepage alone took nearly 8 seconds. Seems like CDN requests are slower than I would expect for a CDN, too (e.g. 657ms for a 28.7kB image).
(Note: This was an initial page load explicitly with caching disabled. But even with caching enabled, those long requests were still taking upwards of 20-30 seconds.)
Given that the site is still in beta and isn’t even “launched” yet, I’m a bit nervous about what performance will be like on launch day when the site starts to get promoted by creators and the Launch Sale kicks off.
Is there any chance that some time could be spent looking into those long request times? I would hate for Launch Day to be plagued by performance issues as a first impression.
(I am in Atlanta, GA, USA, with gigabit internet, for what that’s worth from a debugging standpoint.)
Thanks for reporting this here - it’s really helpful to hear from other people’s experiences with this.
We’re actively working on site performance, and have a number of enhancements in the works right now. We’re also increasing the RAM on our droplet, especially for launch, just to make sure there aren’t any issues.
As the week progresses, you should find the site performing better and better, but we do appreciate the reports of this kind of thing!
We have now shipped a series of significant performance improvements across the whole site, including running fewer (and optimised) database calls, compressing assets, prefetching where its helpful, minimising scripts, implementing better caching rules, and plenty more.
We’ve also upgraded our hardware for the site and database.
With all that, you should find the site loading much more quickly now in all areas. Feel free to put it through its paces!
If you find any places where it feels slow or laggy, and refreshing doesn’t fix it, please let us know.
I’m still seeing a few requests take more than 1000ms, and CDN requests still strike me as on the slow side (most in the mid-to-high triple digits of ms), but it’s definitely a lot better than yesterday.
