Improve page load times

[MattIPv4]

Feature request

Feature description

Improve the load times for uncached pages (not hitting Cloudflare cache) served by the Nuxt app.

How the feature is useful

Currently, page load speed is pretty slow and Google does not like this, nor do our users that have slower internet connections.

We can look at improving the cache configuration in Cloudflare, but this will only affect cached page requests. Uncached page requests will still make it through to the Nuxt app, which is incredibly slow.

Some ideas may be to add caching in front of Nuxt that caches rendered pages. Also, it may be worth looking at what API requests happen during the server-side render, and look at moving them to being client-side if they aren't needed for page meta data (which must be done server-side).

[treboryx]

Is this still a relevant issue? Load times were OK from a few tests I ran, but it probably depends on the library (assuming the issue comes from library pages)