Ways to improve loading time for WebGL games on personal websites?

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Hi, so I’ve been working on a small 2d game for exporting on WebGL. Though I need to have the game on my personal domain. Due to blocked links, I can’t embed an itch.io game in the website so I have to load it directly. Compared to itch.io it takes around 25-40 seconds on a fast connection to load the game. What kind of issues could be causing this? I’ve looked into upgrading the hosting server, but I’ve seen some warn that it probably wouldn’t affect loading time. Also is there some reason besides obviously better servers that it runs better on itch.io?

Here are the two links to the games to compare:
itch.io - https://gdev-studios.itch.io/stranded
Personal Domain: https://gdevstudios.com/

Info about the build:
Using Universal RP 2D lighting
Using Gzip compression
The game is less than 16MB when exported with compressed textures and audio

Here are the player settings:

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8817373--1200031--Screenshot 2023-02-18 170230.jpg689×837 67.2 KB
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8817373--1200034--Screenshot 2023-02-18 170151.jpg707×157 15.2 KB

Thanks for taking the time to help!

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Try the uncompressed build. If that loads faster your webserver is most definitely CPU limited as is the case with most entry-level webhosting solutions where your website is just one of many served by the same physical machine.

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What sort of web hosting setup are you running? I would recommend using Brotli compression on your personal site and using a distributed web host (like Netlify) with a CDN (like Cloudflare). Netlify + Cloudflare should bring you great delivery performance without spending anything.

Would compression matter when using precompressed files?

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Hi, I tried using uncompressed but that only slowed down load time. I don’t think it is CPU bound. Thank you though!