title: Node.js + Express.js very slow serving static files
body: <p>Sometimes when developing my current node project I will get a hanging refresh. Where the page will never load. I check the network tab in Chrome and see that its always hung up on a static files. The static file that gets stuck will differ, sometimes it will be a CSS file other times an image file. </p>
  
  <p>I have tried to optimize all my files in hopes to resolve this issue but nothing has fixed it. If I hit refresh during a long load it will load the page correctly on the 2nd request. This does not happen every time I try to load the page but very often when switching between pages.</p>
  
  <p>If I disable cache under the chrome network inspector, It will almost always happen.</p>
  
  <p>**This is my 1st major node project so I could have made mistakes along the way. **</p>
  
  <p>Entire project is hosted on github: <a href="http://github.com/polonel/trudesk" rel="noreferrer">http://github.com/polonel/trudesk</a></p>
  
  <p>Example Load times: (Open image in new tab to see full-size)
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7sU9H.png" alt=""></p>