I can definitely confirm that somewhere around the 8.0 release (I forgot when exactly) GitLab got <i>a lot</i> faster in general. Previously with the 7.x line it took about a couple seconds at least to load a page but now I barely get over a second until &quot;onload&quot;, with response times of about 400ms.<p>In general I wouldn&#x27;t consider performance with GitLab an issue and denote it as a selling point for Gogs anymore - it would just be nice if it no longer felt like a Ruby on Rails website...<p>A optimized site of mine with similiar complexity and database setup has a response time of 16ms and an &quot;onload&quot; event after about 400ms (using PHP-FPM 7 &amp; MariaDB). ;)