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DEFLATE module settings

Symptoms

When logging into the Appian Suite for the first time or after the browser cache has been cleared, users with slow or small connections may notice a long loading time.

Cause

When logging in to the Appian Suite for the first time or after the browser cache has been cleared with a slow or small connection, several files 

Action

Please refer to the Configure Compression Using the Deflate Module documentation to configure the compression of javascript, .CSS, and plain text files served by Appian, in order to reduce the bandwidth these files consume.

Set the user start pages to a Site instead of Tempo to reduce the number of large files downloaded to the browser.  The file size for Sites are smaller since Sites are simpler and allow users to focus on a limited set of activities.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: April 2018