Well, typical SLA for server side is 500 ms, then you have a chance to load a whole page under 3 seconds, which is recommended by google usability findings. vi

Well, typical SLA for server side is 500 ms, then you have a chance to load a whole page under 3 seconds, which is recommended by google usability findings. villa-bali is not even close to this, my bet that you (or your ORM) are making too many requests to database. Try to record ALL requests to database during page rendering and I bet you have about hundred. Check out following test results: 8 test agents: http://loadme.socialtalents.com/Result/ViewById/57341f645b5f160adca6c1bc http://loadme.socialtalents.com/Result/ViewById/57341f645b5f... - 5% of users have to wait more than 2 seconds 16 test agents: http://loadme.socialtalents.com/Result/ViewById/57341f1a5b5f160adca6c19b http://loadme.socialtalents.com/Result/ViewById/57341f1a5b5f... 5% of users need to wait for more than 4 seconds. Definitely, any bot can nuke your website easily​.