It’s… slow?

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Please bear with me, I just have to get it off my chest.

I’m currently trying Miniflux. It is running on a powerful dedicated server machine with a great internet connection. I have turned off the read time estimation. And yet, Miniflux is just… slow. I think there’s a problem with sub-resource loading. Even though all resources (CSS, JS, images) are cached, they appear late in the network log, sometimes excessively so:

• CSS: 100 ms+ (at DOMContentLoaded)
• JS: 200 ms+
• Images: 300 ms+

(The last two lines are manifest stuff, they don’t matter.)

The loading delay causes all images to flicker in Firefox (but not in Blink engine browsers). The delays between resources types happen in both Firefox and Blink engine browsers, with varying severity. And I think this is what makes usage feel sluggish for me.

And then, there’s “cold starts” (no HTTP connection to reuse). They are unusually slow.

Not sure how to actually address any of this. I think I encountered something like that before, but I don’t remember how I solved it.