CODEWITHSUNDEEP
google-app-engine
Emily Eustis
Emily Eustis

Reputation: 41

Slow loading of static files hosted on GAE

My website (www.nykidplaces.com) is hosted on Google App Engine.

Loading the homepage is sometimes very slow, 10 seconds or more. After some profiling, I've noticed that the problem is typically caused by loading a static file (css, javascript, or images). Most static files load quickly, but occasionally one random static file will load very slowly.

For example, this 4Kb file usually takes < 200ms to load, but occasionally takes much longer:

while true; do time wget http://www.nykidplaces.com/styles/toastr.css --quiet; done

real 0m0.163s

real 0m0.154s

real 0m3.335s slow

Any ideas about what could be causing this?

My .yaml file:

version: 1
runtime: python27
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true

handlers:
- url: /images
  static_dir: images
- url: /styles
  static_dir: styles
- url: /javascript
  static_dir: javascript
- url: /.*
  script: daycares.application

libraries:
- name: webapp2
  version: latest
- name: MySQLdb
  version: "latest"
- name: jinja2
  version: latest

Upvotes: 4

Views: 419

Answers (1)

user7180
user7180

Reputation: 4066

It shouldn't be that slow but I noticed your static file is using the default 10 minutes cache expiry time. You could set it to higher say 1 day to make use of the very fast edge cache for static files (if they don't need to be updated frequently)

Upvotes: 0

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