I’ve been a Newsblur user over a couple of years - used in at least 3 continents (US, Brazil and now South Africa). I’ve been experiencing consistently slow / poor UX (e.g., not loading feed at all) here in South Africa. I’m probably in the 0.1% of users… but is there a way to improve this in the back-end? Thanks!
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http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160714_P3_5CH/1/details/ definitely shows some massive SSL negotiation times – beyond adding a CDN, HTTP/2 support would be a huge win, as would be using the same origin for everything (note that https://www.newsblur.com references http://newsblur.com/static/common.js?1467311004) and there’s a ton of stuff served off of s3.amazonaws.com which would see major wins from being served through CloudFront rather than direct from S3.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160714_P3_5CH/1/performance_optimization/#keep_alive_enabled also shows that enabling keep-alive would be a big win even if it’s hard to enable HTTP/2 or toss the site behind e.g. CloudFlare.
Not really a performance issue but https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=newsblur.com also shows an important missing security update.