Performance Improvements : Catalog

[briangrossman]

Steps to Reproduce

• Open the catalog page
• Note the slow load time
• Open the Chrome developer tools (View => Developer => Developer Tools)
• Click on the Lighthouse tab
• Highlight all categories and choose Mobile or Desktop
• Click Generate report
• Note the results of the performance. It's particularly an issue on mobile
• Note that the Opportunities section provides good suggestions for where to improve. Suggestions include:
  • Reducing initial server response time
  • Eliminating render-blocking resources
• Please explore what can be done to help improve load time.

Expected Behavior

• Page should load more quickly

Actual Behavior

• Page loads slowly

Related Issues

#2065 EPIC: xPRO performance improvements
#2066 Performance Improvements : Home Page
#2068 Performance Improvements : Product Page
#1919 xPRO Catalog page performance improvements (past issue)
#1908 EPIC: xPRO performance improvements (past issue)

Screenshot or Screencast

[arslanashraf7]

Multiple PRs were merged over the last 2 years improving the performance. I'm closing this one. We can open again.