I was checking the performance of one of my web sites using Page Speed and noticed it complained about assets loading slowly as well as the initial response time from the server being a bit long (500ms-700ms range). My first thought was that it might be the database queries being too slow. I quickly ruled that out (they all took in the vicinity of a few milliseconds). Then I noticed Stripe was loading on each page load. This only happened in production hence I didn’t noticed it while develo...