Slow page load speeds (esp. for included images and fonts)

[schneeland]

I felt, this maybe deserves it's own thread, since it might or might not be related to the new layout of the front page:
After brief intervention from @darjr, unfortunately page load speeds are quite bad again. A fresh reload of the page for this "Meta" section of the forum takes 1.6 minutes. One reason seems to be that loading assets is generally slow - I see multiple images taking more than 10 seconds to load. The other seems to be that there is one very large image with 4.7 MB size that takes 1.5 minutes to load. Related network trace from Chrome attached.

 

[darjr]

Yea, will look into it.

Thanks!

 

[aco175]

I'm not having problems- if that matters/helps.

 

[SkidAce]

This site has become very sluggish for me, initial visit to main/home page had pictures on the carousel not even 1/3 displayed before switching to next pic.

Previous articles underneath the carousel took a minute+ to load all of them.

This wasn't the case before.

 

[monsmord]

Same here using Firefox on a laptop running Windows 10, everything up to date.

 

[SkidAce]

Very fast this morning.

 

[schneeland]

Yeah, today it's better again. If it stays like this, that'll work for me.

 

[darjr]

It won’t. Something is triggering it.

 

[Reef]

It's definitely been a lot more sluggish than I'm used to, both on mobile devices and my desktop. I can't help pinpoint it, but just adding my voice to the chorus.

 

[monsmord]

It's hit and miss for me. Just now it was great.