BI server performance in low-bandwidth environments

Hi - we are deploying an application with BI-server (ce) in a low-bandwidth environment. We have found performance issues with the BI server, it is very heavy... For example, after logging in, it makes over 250 requests to the server. Several of these requests are duplicates (for example, it downloads at least 4 or 5 different copies of jquery, sometimes different versions - sometimes the same version from a different directory, sometimes the same version from the same directory but with a slightly different url (e.g. &context=mantle&cssOnly=true, &context=mantle, etc).


We have turned on gzip compression on tomcat and have removed the favicon.ico (over 300k!), which helped, but it's still very slow. Does anyone have any experience in optimizing Pentaho BI server 5.3 for low-bandwidth settings? What other changes can we make to reduce the traffic between server and client - especially on first load?


Thanks!