Having many fields in flexible content slow down page?

• lucyryder

• October 12, 2016 at 9:54 pm

Hello,

I am using flexible content and repeater fields in a page template on my site; to be able to create many different pages of content from the one flexible template.

I have seen that my pages using this flexible content template are loading slowly – does the amount of fields that make up my page affect loading speeds – ie. the more fields the slower it loads? – and if so what can I do to help lessen this affect on performance?

Thanks in advance,
Lucy

• James

• October 13, 2016 at 4:02 pm

Hi @lucyryder

If you show a lot of fields (especially the flexible and repeater fields) on a page, it definitely will slow that page because your site needs to load a lot of value from your database. The best workaround would be using a caching plugin that allows you to create and serve a static version of your page instead.

I hope this makes sense 🙂