As GitLab gets more popular I'm not surprised the number of issues grows.
We are measuring a lot of metrics on GitLab.com. And we are shipping a lot of performance improvements to improve those metrics. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance/#p...
For example a really big MR had a time to first byte of 15 second. It now is 3 seconds. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ymo28t2v4i4jl4x/Screenshot%202018-...