Initial load times for content are horrible

[humphd]

Our app loads fast, but the content takes forever. On my machine it can take 25s before the main content appears, which includes:

• hero banner image
• stats
• posts

When I profile it, it appears to all be blocking on network I/O (nothing else is happening):

If I hit those routes via curl, they are super fast. So I'm not sure why they suddenly conspire to take 25s together.

[humphd]

Looking at this again right now, it seems to me that we get back the result of /posts?page=1 and then it blocks on all the multiple requests happening in the browser. You can see the turtle icon beside all the blocked requests the browser is waiting on (Firefox):