Overview

This PR optimizes the home page by improving how data is fetched and cached, leading to better performance, reduced memory usage, and more maintainable code. Below is a performance comparison between the previous implementation and the updated implementation .

Performance Comparison

Database Queries:

• (Updated): Prefetches related objects in a single query, reducing the number of database hits. This approach is generally more efficient when dealing with a large number of related objects, as it minimizes the number of separate queries.
• (Previous): Issues separate queries for each bug to fetch related screenshots. This results in a larger number of queries, which can be significantly slower if the number of issues is large.

Memory Usage:

• (Updated): Prefetches related objects only for the current page, making it more memory-efficient by loading only the necessary data into memory.
• (Previous): Loads all issues and then filters screenshots iteratively, potentially using more memory as it processes all issues before pagination.

Query Efficiency:

• (Updated): More efficient due to prefetching, which is optimized for fetching related objects in Django.
• (Previous): Less efficient due to issuing separate queries for each issue’s related screenshots.

Changes Made

1. Optimized Data Fetching: Used prefetch_related to fetch related objects in a single query, significantly reducing the number of database hits.
2. Memory Usage Optimization: Prefetches only the necessary data for the current page, ensuring more efficient memory usage.
3. Removed cache_per_user Decorator: With these optimizations, the cache_per_user decorator is no longer necessary for the home page, as the updated implementation handles real-time data updates efficiently.

Conclusion

These changes enhance the performance and efficiency of the home page, ensuring that users experience faster load times and up-to-date content. The code is also more readable and easier to maintain, which will benefit future development.

@DonnieBLT , @arkid15r , can you please review sir ?