Is there a way to make Confluence more lightweight and faster?

[Marco Mooij]

Hello,

We've been using Confluence Cloud for a while now. First we were using the Hosted server version of Confluence and moved to the Cloud because of multiple reasons.

Ever since we moved to the Cloud version we are experiencing problems with loading speeds which makes working with Confluence more of a painful experience instead of a smooth one.

When we load a Confluence page we see in de browser developer tools that a single page refresh does around 590 requests with 15MB of data transferred. We see alot of .js files being loaded. When we do a test with GTmetrix the performance of the site is dreadful (E). GTmetrix also suggests to avoid enormous network payloads.

Is there a way to disable certain things from being loaded so the pages load faster and smoother? For example for our customers we have a public space that only needs to show the pages and content. No need for comments and other apps or stuff being loaded.

[Nick Reilingh · Accepted solution]

A PDF attachment can be embedded in a page–this will display as a thumbnail icon that the user can click to get a full PDF viewer complete with comment annotations. This is the standard behavior if you drag and drop the PDF onto the page in edit mode.

An alternative option is to use a file viewer macro. This will display the attachment content in a viewer with page next/previous buttons.

You can not insert the PDF content into your page as regular page text except by copy and pasting. In your case since your PDF contains an org chart, see if either of the above methods work for your purposes.

One other option is to convert the PDF to PNG format and include this on your page. Images can be inserted into a page at any size (including original), and with or without a border. If you just want the org chart to display on the page at full size with no clicking to open a viewer window, then this is your solution.