Site load time improvements

[dbe]

Site is getting a 0 on Google's PageSpeed test.

Links to reports:

• https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=xdai.io
• https://www.webpagetest.org/performance_optimization.php?test=190104_1A_4fa20446fbd0db890cf8190cd4b00877&run=1

There are two very low hanging fruit ways to get the PageSpeed score significantly improved.

1. Set CloudFront file compression on (will likely save 20+ seconds from load time)
2. Set cache control headers

Great blog post outlining how to do this: https://christianoliff.com/blog/optimizing-cloudfront-performance.

I'd be happy to do this, but it requires CloudFront access.

[austintgriffith]

DONE, how does it look?

[austintgriffith]

maybe check dendai.io too?

[dbe]

Wew!

Lol, that was actually a huge improvement, but we were just so far in the doghouse before that it only got us to a 2.

Looks like the next big thing is going to be optimizing the JS. There are a lot of unneeded dependencies getting shipped. Just splitting out dev dependencies and prod ones will be a next big win.