For anyone that comes across this post, the only thing I hadn’t done yet from this best practices post was the CDN and caching explained in this step-by-step walkthrough. I followed those instructions and never would have fathomed how much it reduced my API calls. In the example in the instructional video, he goes from 15 to 3 API calls to load the test page. For me, it was 8 to 2 API calls to load the Login page. My dashboard page went from 20 to 4 or something like that. In other words, the vast majority of the API calls were taken out with CDN and caching.