Page load times for content served by trac ranges from a couple seconds to a couple minutes. This frequently makes the site totally unusable. We really need to get all page load times down to single digit seconds at least (ideally much faster). These kind of performance improvements can be somewhat open ended, but the issue to resolve immediately is the (apparent) significant regression to multi-minute page load times.
This may be related to the newly deployed site changes, though perhaps only very tangentially (like an uptick in spidering due to the changes, or hitting the hockey stick due to a few new required requests per page load).
Without really understanding the underlying cause, one thing to try is to get all static content served without going through the trac/wsgi pipeline. One obvious candidate for this is the sponsor logos on the front page, or more generally anything beneath </trac/raw-attachments/>. That hierarchy appears simple and purely static. A static.File carefully placed in trac_server.tac/external.py could serve these files without involving trac, speeding them up and reducing the load on trac (presumably speeding up other things).
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