how to prevent sluggish behavior in Weekly Meeting Notes template

Question

https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/templates/weekly-meeting-notes

We use a (customized) version of the Weekly Meeting Notes template. Anyone else getting really sluggish performance out of it (seen in both Brave and Chrome browsers, Windows 11).

I *love* this template even though the performance and page speed is now suffering. For those that like EOS, it's very powerful to structure a repeatable weekly meeting agenda, with tracking on action items and decisions queried over time. I have still not seen any other product that offers this simple feature.

At this point, after a year of use, we have a very long page with dozens of rows of data in our meeting notes table with screenshots, etc. in a linear record.

It takes many seconds to load, another many seconds to get the "Edit" page to load fully, and I get stuttering / delays when making edits or adding Dates or other macro-enabled features.

Any tips? Is anyone else encountering this problem?

isaiah berg · Answer

Looking forward to our meeting next week Andy - I am thinking that the speed could increase if we split it into multiple pages. Essentially, we could create a new page from template for every week's Level 10 meeting, and query them into a top-level page that serves as the template agenda / summary / parent for the weekly meeting pages and their corresponding tasks and decisions underneath. The benefit is that our parent query on tasks and decisions would show links to the underlying meeting page with more context on the date etc....currently we have to CTRL+F and jump to the task or decision to see it in context.

The downside of splitting into pages for me is that it makes it hard for someone to easily CTRL + F and quickly see past mentions or discussion of a particular topic. I love having everything in one giant sheet. If a customer's name comes up in a meeting, I can quickly see every weekly meeting when they were mentioned.

But my gears are turning, and I also like the idea of potentially being able to query "Last week's" tasks and decisions automatically into any given weekly meeting template.

Andy Gladstone · Answer

@isaiah berg we are also using EOS and I created a template (well really a page structure) that is updated each week and then copied over with the following week's date where the scorecard and agenda can be updated. I am sure that I could use Confluence Automatino to do it less manaully, but for now it works pretty well for us. Since each L10 meeting is it's own page we don't run into the issues you are experiencing. If you'd like to contact me to discuss how we are doing it, feel free to shoot me a message on LinkedIn.

Dan Breyen · Answer

Hi @isaiah berg I've seen other atlassian issues for Confluence which were created for sluggish, pages.  Here's an example here: CONFCLOUD-72519

The common theme I saw was pages with 'a lot of data'.  I don't know exactly how you would define that, but that would be one thing to look at.

I would say if you can replicate a behavior with a page, there would be worth some value to open a ticket with support (support.atlassian.com / contact link in upper right) and walk through it with them.  I know it's hard to fix an issue like this without some sort of defined pattern.  Give it a shot.

Hope that helps.