What is the name of the domain?
What is the issue you’re encountering
enabling proxy is very slow and I have to refresh to finish loading the page
What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?
everything works fine, http/https, with/without www. the issue is I’m serving the website via django’s whitenoise but at the same host I also have my api (at doc2exam.com/api/), and maybe that interferes somehow with the proxying? the issue is that if I do enable CF proxying for the apex A record, the website loads very slowly (but it does eventually and then I can refresh fast, so it looks like cache population is slow?). but if I do it directly (dns only) the website loads much faster (I’m using incognito to clear caches). what could be causing this? are servers located near Eastern Europe slower or what? I tried a few things but it’s extremely time consuming to then test all those http/https/www combinations, especially as they’re applied with an unknown delay. so while I’m far from being an expert on CDNs, because only the 1st load is slow (it even stops loading and only a white page is seen, and I have to manually refresh to get the website), it looks like the initial cache population is slow, but why?