We are seeing performance issues and would appreciate any input on how to speed things up.
We currently have an interface that consists of a two column layout.
In the first column, we have 4 card layouts. Within each of these card layouts, we have ~15 rich text items and ~10 rich text images/icons.
When a user clicks on a card in the left column, we populate the second column with certain associated records, also shown in a list of card layouts (this side has 5-10). Each of these card layouts has ~10 rich text items and ~15 rich text images/icons.
We have no with() variables anywhere and we are not querying the database beyond the initial load. Yet, just clicking on a single card can take up to 5 seconds. It doesn't matter what we click, any action on the page takes 3-5 seconds (even when clicking on completely isolated components). It seems like Appian is re-rendering every component on every click.
We have already read through https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/18.4/SAIL_Performance.html but were not able to find any actionable takeaways from it.
Looking at the performance view, Appian is telling us the page is loading in 1.3 second (not accurate when compared to end user testing).
The only option I can see is reducing the number of components on the page. When doing so, we have received pushback since it no longer matches the client's initial design. Are there any other ways to speed up performance here?
Top 5 parts of performance view:
a!richTextItem
154
524
38.40%
< 1
61
a!richtextimage
60
332
24.34%
5
11
a!sidebysidelayout
41
191
13.99%
2
12
a!richtextdisplayfield
101
44
3.22%
a!richtexticon
36
2.66%
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