# Slow page load **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [February 7, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890 "2025-02-07T16:58:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jason\_Bronfeld](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jason_bronfeld/32/64705_2.png) [@Jason\_Bronfeld](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jason_Bronfeld)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/1 "2025-02-07T16:58:44Z")
I have a mundane landing page when users start my app. It only has one nav bar choice. ![login](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/2/7/2769d4b2c7514e7092786d84342712aa973af96c.png) The subsequent page is very simple - nothing special. A form with 3 choices and one hidden input field to set a default value. ![where](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/e/b/eb05a0f2a803e397bbdd93d8f8ff9463cc22ad58.png) For some reason, this form page is taking 5+ seconds to load. In my prior version, it loads almost instantly. The background image used in both cases is super-compressed and very small - under 100kb. Two questions: 1. What’s going on and how do speed this up? 2. If it can’t be fixed, how do I attach a workflow to a nav bar item to pop up “waiting?” ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Bronfeld](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jason_bronfeld/32/64705_2.png) [@Jason\_Bronfeld](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jason_Bronfeld)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/2 "2025-02-07T17:06:10Z")
Some more info - even when I remove the image, load is still slow ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/3 "2025-02-07T17:38:36Z")
How big are the tables sourcing the choice components and the hidden field? Or are the choices sourced from a query or relation by chance? Do those tables have a lot of computed columns? ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Bronfeld](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jason_bronfeld/32/64705_2.png) [@Jason\_Bronfeld](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jason_Bronfeld)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/4 "2025-02-07T19:03:07Z")
The calendar is the calendar, the other to choice tables are tiny 9 rows and 10 rows each with 5 columns. One as no computed columns. The other has two columns that are concatenations of text. But that’s done in a google sheet and never changes. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/5 "2025-02-07T20:38:38Z")
Hmm, I’m not sure what it could be. Seems pretty basic. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/6 "2025-02-08T01:51:32Z")
![CleanShot 2025-02-08 at 08.50.55](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/8/5/8546de1cb62fa4760b2828a77cb8a486f599b619.png) Can you run this Performance Mode to see which columns take time to load? ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Bronfeld](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jason_bronfeld/32/64705_2.png) [@Jason\_Bronfeld](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jason_Bronfeld)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/7 "2025-02-08T02:52:48Z")
None of the tables in the landing page or w/w form page flag any significant loading. Not surprising as there is no calculation that I’m aware of. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/8 "2025-02-08T02:55:39Z")
How are you adding the background to those tabs? ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Bronfeld](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jason_bronfeld/32/64705_2.png) [@Jason\_Bronfeld](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jason_Bronfeld)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/9 "2025-02-08T03:18:42Z")
CSS background-image I’ve tried removing them and it doesn’t change the load time. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/10 "2025-02-08T03:24:33Z")
That’s weird. I thought CSS is the likely culprit, but I don’t have any other ideas. Maybe a VPN to see if it loads better for another country. ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Bronfeld](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jason_bronfeld/32/64705_2.png) [@Jason\_Bronfeld](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jason_Bronfeld)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slow-page-load/79890/11 "2025-02-08T03:31:34Z")
I had the same suspicion. I even super-compressed the images using a zolfi algorythm - less than 65 kb. But with or without, still takes time to load.