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1 useful hack that will help you speed up your Meteor app

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If you do not have an asset-heavy marketing page(s) that can be separated from your core application, you can stop reading further. A month or so ago, my MVP for Count us in , an online invitation web-app was ready for release but the landing page was light and thus aesthetically barebones. Google Analytics data and feedback from users showed that users were coming in but a large percentage were not making it past the landing page. It looked like the next step was to create a beautiful landing page build trust and engagement. But, these would require large images and possibly large js/css libraries, which were not required for my core-app. Meteor packages most of your assets into your web-app and delivers it to the requesting browser. This creates the amazing fast, snappy experience that you are used to with Meteor apps. However, that increases the initial load time. Further, more connections to the Meteor app. means more Meteor server-load — which impacts your core a...