Homepage - Improve loading
Create a "low bandwidth" version this is now so much slower than the old page on slow internet connections 271 resource requests is just stupid for a home page and 1=nearly 50mb of resources? not everyone has fiber to the building and a 250mb/s connection.
Geoffery Gordon
shared this idea
Hi Geoffery, thanks for sharing this! We can see how a smoother experience on slower connections would make working in Xero more seamless, especially when you’re remote or have limited internet.
Right now, using the Xero mobile app for lighter tasks or clearing your browser cache can help speed things up, but we know a dedicated low-bandwidth mode would make day-to-day work even easier.
I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can track interest and show our product teams how much of a difference this would make.
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Freya Pieroz
commented
Here at work, we usually test faster than the average internet speed in Australia. I just tested and got 176.38Mbps download and 41.38Mbps upload. Yay for fibre to the premises!
I am SO TIRED of having to wait for things to load before I can start entering text. If I press the search button on the homepage, I'm usually three or four keypresses in before it registers one (other pages are not quite as bad for this specific function, but it's still slower than it should be).
When I'm assigning things to estimated costs in Projects, I have to click the kebab button, select assign, tab twice, enter three letters (usually enough to get the option I want in the dropdown) and then wait several seconds for the system to find it. If I press enter to select one too early - as I often do, because I do this for a living and _I'm_ not at all slow - then it picks the first item it first displayed on the dropdown, even if it had already filtered the dropdown and that option had been replaced by what I actually want.
The thing that is slowing down my workflow the most has changed from dilatory clients to Xero itself. I don't care about pretty, I just want to do my job.
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Geoffery Gordon
commented
Yeah, no. The mobile app is missing many features of the main site, and sure graphs are pretty but 271 website resources at 50mb due to the update that was pushed is obviously not optimised code or resources.
Clearing the cache will force a full re-download of all those resources which will NOT speed anything up.
Please raise your bandwidth use as a critical product oversight with your coding team. -
Micah Edwards
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Slow to load homepage , I can see it makes multiple requests back to the server to render the widgets into the page.
I understand this helps you with server hardware , but it's infuriating !
Until all the widgets have loaded I can't click on the option I want !