PNP web parts very slow load

[luigiman86]

I updated my sppkg to 4.21.0 a few weeks ago, a few weeks after it was released, and immediately afterwards I had users compalining about the loading speed of PNP search web parts. The web parts would flash white bars for a number of seconds before loading. I can't say if the update really caused the change, or if there really was a change or if it was always like this, since I haven't been using pages with web parts regularly myself, but it sure was slow, taking more than 5 second to load PNP Search web parts that are listing site pages compared to near instant for a doc library web part listing the same results.

I did some vibe diagnostics (since I'm not really a dev) and found that there is a default extensibility library turned on and loading by default in each results and search box web part. Turning this off, at least on my pages, drastically reduces the load time.

Just wondering if there is a bug here, or if there is some other config I don't have right that caused this library to be so slow loading?

[kasperbolarsen]

Please see #4799

[luigiman86]

Thanks! Yes, that looks like the same issue I was having, properly explained by a real dev :) I will look forward to the fixes in a future release!

[kasperbolarsen]

You can manually disable it on page 4 of the results web parts as a temporary workaround

[wobba]

The dev branch and next release will have quite some optimizations.

[Jeroen00]

Same experience here with 4.22, very slow compared to 4.20. Turning off default extensibility library fixes it.

What is the default library doing? What does not work when turned off?

[kasperbolarsen]

@Jeroen00 Does v4.23.2 solve the issue ?

[kasperbolarsen]

@luigiman86 Can you verify if the latest version has resolved the issue?

[Kvgelderen]

@luigiman86 Can you verify if the latest version has resolved the issue?

I have just installed version 4.23.2 and can confirm that the web parts still takes a lot of time to load results. Unless you use the pnp-search-rollup, but it is not suitable for every scenario. Moreover, when turning off the loading of the default extensibility library dramatically increases the load speed. For now I have toggled that off as a workaround.

[wobba]

Fixed in #4871 and dev branch and we<ll do a release with this soon.

[Jeroen00]

@Jeroen00 Does v4.23.2 solve the issue ?

Yes, thanks