How may I reduce the load time of a page with numerous embedded objects?

Question

I have a page with numerous embedded Draw.io diagrams that takes a little over one minute to fully load. I am specifically using Draw.io because I want to be able to layer colour swatches with interactive text that allows users to right-click and copy, like in a PDF. Because Confluence limits the number of colours that may be used within internal features, I've relied on external applications to achieve this, which in this case was Draw.io. It works exactly as I had intended, but the load time makes this page more tedious to access than useful.

I understand that the number of embedded objects directly relates to the load time of the page, but does there exist another application that would allow me to achieve this more efficiently, or is there a way to speed this up?

Lukas Angst · Answer

Ok, good point
I think less information will work wonders.
Thanks for your answer

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Confluence is intended to be used as a wiki, not a data dump of huge amounts of information people will probably never wade through to find what they're looking for.

Yes, it has a lot of prettified functions, but the target audience is mostly people who want specific highly-focussed information and are unlikely to read a page that they have to scroll down more than a couple of times.

You'll have the same problem with a text-editor generated page - put too much stuff on it, and it's going to render slower.  And you don't get the diagrams, macros, fancy formatting and so on without having to encode it all manually.  It would be slightly quicker to render if you wrote plain HTML (Confluence has to generate it when someone asks for a page), but the volume would still defeat you, and writing HTML manually is slow and error prone, even in HTML editors

I don't know about draw.io using a single diagram - I don't know if Confluence is set up to cache them.

Lukas Angst · Answer

For the first point, isnt this the idea of confluence?
So you can add page properties reports, add diagrams that describe a function and all this fancy stuff?
Otherwise i could use a text editor as well.
We have the same problem with draw io
Would it help, if all the different draw io objects were from one draw io file and i would be just embedding the different draw io pages in the confluence page?
Would the resolution of the draw io object make a difference?

On the other hand, the solution to split the page is working fine.