Performance Improvement Spike: Threat Monitoring Page

Time-box: TBD

Topic to Evaluate

Based on the LCP measurements reported by Sitespeed (report), the Threat Montioring Page does not meet our criteria for performance. The expected LCP average for a gitlab-org page is < 2.5 seconds, this page has the following LCP metrics:

	min	max	current
TTFB	380 ms	414 ms	414 ms
FirstVisualChange	551 ms	767 ms	651 ms
Heading	634 ms	1.084 s	651 ms
LastVisualChange	3.867 s	4.717 s	3.867 s
SpeedIndex	1.570 s	2.019 s	1.573 s
Fully Loaded	4.396 s	5.168 s	4.396 s
LCP	3.857 s	4.668 s	3.857 s

* The date range of these measurements is 2021-03-10 through 2021-03-12 based on the date KAS was enabled on gitlab.com for the test project. The 'current' value was captured on 2021-03-12 at 1:30pm PST.

URL configured to be measured by Sitespeed: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/threat-management/defend/demos/network-policy-demo/-/threat_monitoring

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Tasks to Evaluate

• Identify opportunities for optimization on the frontend
• Identify opportunities for optimization on the backend
• Create issue(s) for implementation
• Set weight on implementation issue(s)
• If weight is greater than 5, break issue(s) into smaller issues

Risks and Implementation Considerations