# How to improve Glide page speed **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-improve-glide-page-speed/28618 **Category:** Ask for Help **Created:** [July 2, 2021, 10:26am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-improve-glide-page-speed/28618 "2021-07-02T10:26:37Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb) #### Post date: [July 13, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-improve-glide-page-speed/28618/4 "2021-07-13T09:16:06Z")
Hi @StephM, here are a few general ideas: **Data** 1. Data sync: use Glide Tables rather than Google Sheets. 2. Calculations: create computed columns in Glide Tables rather than in Google Sheets. 3. Data download to user’s device: use row owners and roles (Private Pro plan) rather than filtering and visibility features. This also has security benefits. **Images** 1. Image hosting: host/upload images within Glide rather than in Google Drive or another server. Caveat: be weary of Glide limits. 2. Image format: optimize format. For example, jpg in general, png for transparency, gif if few colors/edges or animated graphics, svg for icon/logos. 3. Image compression: compress your images, especially lossless formats such as png, gif, svg. 4. Image dimensions: think about if you’re optimizing for the web, smartphone, retina display, etc. **Other** 3rd party integrations/features: be picky with the use of Zapier, Integromat, webhooks, Google Sheets, Apps Script, Cloudinary, Quickchart. Other ideas from @Mark_Turrell > [@Focus on speed - tricks to optimize loading and passing data](https://community.glideapps.com/t/focus-on-speed-tricks-to-optimize-loading-and-passing-data/25790): > > I am moving towards going live with my app - which means lots of bug testing! One thing that struck me was how slow some things can be, and how some things seem to be relatively easy to improve: set a boolean to false is faster than ‘clear current value’ – I did a few tests, and maybe I was not looking right, but just making this change seemed to save about 4-5 seconds on one screen (I use this for ‘quit’ which then deletes a row… and sets a value for the user ‘hasStartedTest’ would no longe… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-improve-glide-page-speed/28618)._