nushell.sh is incredibly slow

[holly-hacker]

A few times, I have noticed that nushell.sh is incredibly slow to load (freezes my browser for at least 5 seconds on a desktop, more on a laptop). I decided to check why this is with chrome devtools and noticed that it does almost 1500(!) web requests. This seems to be because there are a massive amount of prefetch links. I included a small part of them , taken from here:

    <link rel="modulepreload" href="/assets/app.f134f4b4.js"><link rel="modulepreload" href="/assets/framework.3d018c9f.js"><link rel="modulepreload" href="/assets/2022-11-29-nushell-0.72.html.83fd61fb.js"><link rel="modulepreload" href="/assets/2022-11-29-nushell-0.72.html.798221e6.js"><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/CONTRIBUTING.html.871cceeb.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/index.html.d8190879.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2019-08-23-introducing-nushell.html.7430107c.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2019-09-24-nushell_0_3_0.html.59ca6e76.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2019-10-15-nushell-0_4_0.html.c3bbf53e.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2019-11-05-nushell-0_5_0.html.a9c29b1c.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2019-11-23-nushell-survey-results.html.62fdf43d.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2019-11-26-nushell-0_6_0.html.9b591d54.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2019-12-18-nushell-0_7_0.html.27aa64dc.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2019-12-31-happy-nu-year-2020.html.b10227fb.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-01-07-nushell-0_8_0.html.7e1f9684.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-01-28-nushell-0_9_0.html.5dffca6f.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-02-18-nushell-0_10_0.html.4f17778d.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-03-10-nushell_0_11_0.html.10ea3eda.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-03-31-nushell_0_12_0.html.b2593645.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-04-21-nushell_0_13_0.html.3c55d330.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-05-12-nushell_0_14_0.html.97025cd2.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-06-09-nushell_0_15_0.html.84c86196.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-06-30-nushell_0_16_0.html.31be5e65.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-07-21-nushell_0_17_0.html.ded6e3c7.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-08-11-nushell_0_18.html.64e14c69.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-08-23-year_of_nushell.html.fde65652.js" as="script" /><link rel="prefetch" href="/assets/2020-09-01-nushell_0_19.html.37959c59.js" as="script" />

Through some googling I figured this is because of vuepress' shouldPrefetch option is not configured: vuejs/vuepress#636

[rgwood]

Good catch, thanks. What an insane default setting...

[fdncred]

wow, thanks for tracking that down @holly-hacker. it seems to make a big change after @rgwood's PR. really appreciate this!

[holly-hacker]

Thanks for the speedy fix! :)

[loneicewolf]

Thanks @holly-hacker and @rgwood ! this was a amazing difference ⚡
a bit late reply; I know. 🫖 🍵