If you’re using ExpressJS to host your server, there’s a small performance tweak that you can do (works on universally on any kind of server – HTML templates to JSON REST APIs to image servers) – which is to enable GZIP compression.

The changed required to do it should be very simple. First install the compression npm package

 npm install --save compression

In you app.js (or wherever you start your express server), modify the code to include the compression middleware like this

var express = require('express);
var app = express();

var compression = require('compression');

app.use(compression());

// Rest of your app code
// app.get (endpoint, callback) 
// app.listen(port, callback)

This should easily reduce page loads time to the order of 15-20%.

For example, page load before compression middleware added

And Page load time after compression is added