optimize caching

app/layouts/default.vue

@@ -5,6 +5,23 @@
 // routes — admin pages declare their own typography in admin.css.
 
 const { locale, locales } = useI18n()
+const { public: pub } = useRuntimeConfig()
+
+// Warm DNS+TCP+TLS for the cross-origin services these pages hit: the prayer
+// data API (people-group components) and the idle-loaded analytics + feedback
+// widget scripts. Deriving from runtime config keeps these correct per env.
+const preconnectOrigins = computed(() => {
+  const origins = new Set<string>()
+  for (const url of [pub.prayBaseUrl, pub.statinatorUrl, pub.feedbackApiBase]) {
+    if (!url) continue
+    try {
+      origins.add(new URL(String(url)).origin)
+    } catch {
+      // ignore malformed/empty url
+    }
+  }
+  return [...origins]
+})
 
 // Direction attribute per locale (Arabic = rtl)
 const currentLocale = computed(() =>
@@ -21,6 +38,7 @@ useHead(() => ({
     dir: dir.value
   },
   link: [
+    ...preconnectOrigins.value.map(origin => ({ rel: 'preconnect', href: origin })),
     // Preload the heading font (Bebas Neue) — it renders the above-the-fold
     // h1/h2 (the LCP text), so fetching it early avoids a swap flash.
     { rel: 'preload', as: 'font', type: 'font/woff2', href: '/assets/fonts/BebasNeue/BebasNeue-Regular.woff2', crossorigin: '' },

app/plugins/statinator.client.ts

@@ -66,7 +66,16 @@ export default defineNuxtPlugin(() => {
     injectScript().then(() => window.goStats?.pageview()).catch(() => {})
   }
 
-  if (!isExcluded(useRoute().path)) firePageview()
+  // Defer the initial pageview's script injection until the browser is idle so
+  // the analytics bundle stays off the initial load critical path. SPA route
+  // changes (below) still fire immediately — they happen after load.
+  if (!isExcluded(useRoute().path)) {
+    if ('requestIdleCallback' in window) {
+      requestIdleCallback(() => firePageview(), { timeout: 3000 })
+    } else {
+      setTimeout(firePageview, 2000)
+    }
+  }
 
   const router = useRouter()
   router.afterEach((to, from) => {

nuxt.config.ts

@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ export default defineNuxtConfig({
   },
 
   routeRules: {
+    // Content-hashed build assets never change under the same URL — cache forever.
+    '/_nuxt/**': { headers: { 'cache-control': 'public, max-age=31536000, immutable' } },
+    // Fonts/images use stable filenames, so avoid `immutable`: a 7-day cache
+    // still lets an overwritten asset propagate within a week.
+    '/assets/**': { headers: { 'cache-control': 'public, max-age=604800' } },
     '/': { prerender: true },
     '/adopt': { prerender: true },
     '/pray': { prerender: true },
@@ -132,6 +137,9 @@ export default defineNuxtConfig({
     // server crashes on boot. The bun preset builds the output for Bun's own
     // resolver. Run it with `bun run ./.output/server/index.mjs`.
     preset: 'bun',
+    // Precompress public assets (JS/CSS/HTML/SVG/JSON) to .br and .gz at build
+    // time; the server serves the compressed variant when the client supports it.
+    compressPublicAssets: { brotli: true, gzip: true },
     // Dev-only: use in-memory cache for the payload mount. The default fs
     // driver can't represent both a leaf route ("/fr") and children of that
     // route ("/fr/adopt") simultaneously — the first visit writes a file at