Slow page load in production

[Dzale]

Hey guys,

I have a simple app built with next.js and react. Average initial time of loading pages in production is between 4-6s, which is like crazy, since loading data from external API takes about 200ms.

Below is example of page load that doesn't even make request to external API:

DONE Compiled successfully in 6043ms12:51:07 AM

I have basic droplet on VPN (5$ / month) and i used PM2 to serve this app.

Any ideas how to improve this ? Will using "now" speed it up ? Or buying better/faster droplet ?

As i said it is very basic app (i don't have hundreds of packages, no additional webpack config, nothing), so no really space for improvement there. But having this high loading time is unacceptable!

[khuezy]

There shouldn't be any compiling in production mode.
It looks like you're running: npm run dev

To run production:
npm run build
npm start

[Dzale]

No, npm start doesn't support SSR (Server Side Rendering).

I am running following commands:
npm run build
pm2 start server.js

[khuezy]

? npm start renders SS for me.

[Dzale]

For me it throws 404 for each page that has to prefetch some data from API.

[khuezy]

Can you post the script object in your package.json?

My npm start => node index

There's an open issue w/ slow compile time in dev mode: #3735
But I'm not seeing any slow downs running the build

[Dzale]

My npm start => next start :D

[khuezy]

Can you try: node index or whatever your main server app is?

[Dzale]

I tried, the loading time is the same, about 6s. It's basically the same thing that pm2 start server.js does, pm2 just makes that command permanent.

Not sure what can be the problem. Maybe i should get better droplet...

However, thanks for the help.

[timneutkens]

You are starting the app in development mode. Which is not optimized for production usage. In case you're using a custom server you need to set dev to false. In the examples we do it using process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' So when starting your app you need to set NODE_ENV=production node server.js

[Dzale]

works perfectly, thanks!