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Do inactive forms affect speed of site?

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  1. wesleyshaw
    Member

    This is not a complaint: it's just a question about how to optimize my use of GF in this project.

    In short, I've taken GF (v1.5b2) and built a sweet multi-page form with hundreds of questions. It seems to be working fine, but it's painfully slow to use.

    I know: GF wasn't designed to handle this big of a form, so I'm not complaining (really). But I'm trying to figure out how to best use this site as a demo for a dedicated site built specifically for this.

    Are there simple things I can do to make things as easy for GF as possible (to minimize the strain on the server, which I'm assuming is the reason for the pokiness)? Should I delete all my inactive forms (drafts of the original, and quite large)? Anything else other than changing hosting (which is in the works, but not for this weekend)?

    Really happy with GF, and amazed at how much it can do. Thanks.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 19, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    The pokiness you are referring to with the form builder when you have hundreds of fields isn't server related, it's client side. The form builder is built using extensive javascript, so a good portion of it is done client side by your browser and on your computer.

    Depending on your computer performance, internet connection, etc. this can slow down because your browser is loading and interacting with all that information.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 19, 2010 | Permalink

  3. wesleyshaw
    Member

    Thanks, Carl.

    Sorry: I should have been more clear: the pokiness is in the loading of the site's page with the (already built) massive form on it: front-end, not back-end. I'm pretty sure it's GF related since the pages without the forms on them load like normal.

    Again, really not complaining: only trying to optimize. If the word is "hey, you built a huge form, it's just going to demanding on your server and that's how it's going to be" I'm OK with that: I'll just explain this to my client. But if there are things I can do to make it faster, I'd love to try.

    Thanks again for the sweet service.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 19, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Same thing could be happening. If you have a really huge form then that means your page size is probably going to be larger with more javascript to process by the browser for any conditional logic or multi-page functionality that may exist on the form.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 19, 2010 | Permalink

  5. wesleyshaw
    Member

    Thanks, Carl. I'll write it off as a browser issue and see if I can figure out how to break one form into several to reduce the strain.

    Posted 14 years ago on Saturday November 20, 2010 | Permalink