Apart from what the community already outlined, we're always looking to improve performance of GitLab itself, you can check out our ongoing efforts in [1].

Apart from that, we'll also working on improving performance of GitLab.com. Here's a list of issues we're working on [2]

If performance is crucial to you, we invite you to try out a self-hosted CE instance. It should be fairly easy. We even have ready-made Docker containers [3]. As always, if there's any issues just ask away and we'll do our best to help.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf...

[2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al...

[3] - https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/