diff --git a/app/controllers/boards_controller.rb b/app/controllers/boards_controller.rb
index 593595814..258bffc1a 100644
--- a/app/controllers/boards_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/boards_controller.rb
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ class BoardsController < ApplicationController
     end
 
     def show_columns
-      set_page_and_extract_portion_from @board.cards.awaiting_triage.latest.with_golden_first
+      cards = @board.cards.awaiting_triage.latest.with_golden_first.preloaded
+      set_page_and_extract_portion_from cards
       fresh_when etag: [ @board, @page.records, @user_filtering ]
     end
 
diff --git a/app/models/card.rb b/app/models/card.rb
index 51b548c19..5b3468642 100644
--- a/app/models/card.rb
+++ b/app/models/card.rb
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ class Card < ApplicationRecord
   scope :reverse_chronologically, -> { order created_at:     :desc, id: :desc }
   scope :chronologically,         -> { order created_at:     :asc,  id: :asc  }
   scope :latest,                  -> { order last_active_at: :desc, id: :desc }
+  scope :with_users,              -> { preload(creator: [:avatar_attachment, :account], assignees: [:avatar_attachment, :account]) }
+  scope :preloaded,               -> { with_users.preload(:board, :column, :tags, :steps, :closure, :not_now, :goldness, :activity_spike) }
 
   scope :indexed_by, ->(index) do
     case index
diff --git a/app/models/card/golden.rb b/app/models/card/golden.rb
index 4f2f52a60..6427bd0a0 100644
--- a/app/models/card/golden.rb
+++ b/app/models/card/golden.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ module Card::Golden
     has_one :goldness, dependent: :destroy, class_name: "Card::Goldness"
 
     scope :golden, -> { joins(:goldness) }
-    scope :with_golden_first, -> { left_outer_joins(:goldness).prepend_order("card_goldnesses.id IS NULL") }
+    scope :with_golden_first, -> { left_outer_joins(:goldness).prepend_order("card_goldnesses.id IS NULL").preload(:goldness) }
   end
 
   def golden?