General slowness on the website
I noticed that pages in general takes too long to load so I did very basic check in devtools. And I found two issues:
- Most pages the slowness is coming for TTFB (time to first byte) it takes around 2secs which kind of a lot.
- Some pages (files page for example) there are 3 XHR requests in total took 8.56secs and they were blocking. Also, checking the response they look like JavaScript that gets then parsed and executed which adds more time to page because this also blocks.
These issues are really important, because it might actually help you guys getting more users on board. For example I have a very fast and stable internet connection and honesty it feels like a lot waiting for the pages to load or be functional so imagine people from other parts in the world. This might lead to major frustration.
I wanted to try and dig a bit deep on the JavaScript part and tried to install Gitlab on my machine using Vagrant, everything went well(ish) but it didn't work so might give it another try later (or ask for help).
So I thought I'll just mention this here for now.
and keep up the good work