How do I increase the performance of the Studio editor?

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Question:
How do I increase the performance of the wix studio editor?

Product:
Wix Studio

What are you trying to achieve:
Migrating a previous design from Wix Editor to Wix Studio.

What have you already tried:
Searching the Wix docs, google, reddit.

Additional information:
I have spent the last week or so migrating a design I created for a client from Wix editor to Wix studio, the features and design are great, the issue is that the web app is annoyingly slow, to the point that it can take three to five seconds to add a new cell to grid section.

Iā€™ve searched the docs, google, and reddit, and the information is super hit or miss.

Wix will point me to docs about wix editor, google and reddit will point me to editor X, itā€™s getting rather frustrating not being able to find any information specifically referring to Wix Studio .

Originally I thought it was my laptop :

  • 64 gb of ram
  • i7 - 10710U 12 cores @ 1.10 GHz
  • Integrated graphics

But I get the same issue on my other laptop with the same ram, also an i7 @ 2GHz

I have tried both the latest version of Firefox and Chrome.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Hi Charles,
I think Wix Studioā€™s performance is the traditional problem . You will see a bunch of performance problems posts and there are no possible solutions to fix it rather than add a budget GPU or close background apps since Wix is taking more resources than Games :sweat_smile:. Same problems Iā€™ve faced for too long.

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Thanks for the response. Itā€™s unfortunate to hear that, though. Everything else related to the platform has been a dream.

Thanks for the response; Iā€™ve found that after about 30-45 minutes, I have to close the browser and then reopen the platform, which helps.

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Yeah I donā€™t even think that will fix the problem.

I have an Alienware aurora r16 with an I9140kf processor with 64gbā€™s of ram. & an nvidia gforce rtx 4090 gpu.

I can literally do anything with this machineā€¦

Except use the wix studio editor. Crashing, Lags, slow is an understatement.

I have used it on browsers types, chrome incognito.

Itā€™s just painstakingly slow.

I have very little experience outside of wix but I think after thousands invested I may have to begin finding another platform that can somewhat compete because I cannot afford the amount of time it take to build these sites solely dependent on the horrific performance.

Whatā€™s worse is that they just blame the users & loyal customersā€¦

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Iā€™m done with WIX. This is some unbearable BS.

Performance of the studio editor for me vs. Youtube videos - or lack thereof
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ā€¦same problem here - is ANYBODY even actually using this Editor with this dramatically slow performance? I just cannot imagine that other people CAN WORK like thisā€¦

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This problem is known and yes you are right, the Wix-Editor can get very slow.

How to prevent?

  1. Do not use too much elements in your setup.
  2. Do not create to much static-pages ā†’ instead work with dynamic ones.
  3. Do not use VIDEO-BACKGROUNDS ā†’ which will lead your setup to heavy loadings.
  4. Try to use more coded webpage solutions ā†’ VELO-CODE + JS.
    The more you code dynamically ā†’ the faster will be your page at the end.
  5. Do not use big sized IMAGES or similar elements, which will increase loading times.

Once you have overloaded your Wix-Editor, it will slow down increadible ā†’ in this case you are right.

To get the most out of your Wix-Editor ā†’ try to CODE more then to use predefined stuff.

EXAMPLE:

  1. Using single predefined stuff can take you for a specific usecase about 3-4 elements to achieve a specific setup.

  2. The same setup could be done maybe just by using one static element and rest done dynamically by code ā†’ this way you have already saved 2-3 elements in your EDITOR.

Less elements in your EDITOR ā†’ faster speed!

And if you are familiar to coding you also can use extern EDITORS like VS (Visual-Studio) and others.

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You canā€™t do much about such speed-issues. You can buy the best PC in the world, but since this is an ā†’ ONlINE-EDITOR ā† (there is somewhere a bigger SERVER running in the background) ā† it will not affect your speed!

Instead ā†’ WIX ā† should UPGRADE their SERVERS (or upgrade the EDITOR) ā†’ making it more simple or improving methods and functions on their end, to improve editorā€™s speed.

All you can do as USER ā†’ is ā†’ not to overload to much your WEBSITE-SETUP by using to much ā€¦

-STATIC-PAGES
-ELEMENTS on PAGES
-VIDEOS
and other heavy data.

I have seen a lot of Wix-SETUPS of different people world wide.

Always when i had a USER ā†’ working with to much of Wix-Elements (no code) ā†’ the working inside EDITOR was almost impossible ā†’ to slow ā† because of havy SETUPS (a lot of pages and hundrets of used elements on the page ā†’ a lot of useless REDUNDANT SETUP ā† because user was not able to code, what is understandable at this point)

Working on sites, which were mainly ā†’ CODED ā† the EDITORs speed was in a range of ā†’ OK <ā€“.

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This is my first time responding inside wix.
I love wix studio, but this hits so close to home that I have stand with you on this.

(Note: Iā€™m going to rant but I have a legitimate proposed solution that WIX may be in favor of if there is enough support. So if you agree with me like this & share it to wix)
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The wix studio editor speed is the only thing I hate with a passion.
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I was one of those novice suckers, who bought a $4k PC to ā€œspeed things up.ā€ (It didnā€™t) I looked for every possible way too increase the speed Ethernet ect. but Iā€™m maxed out at this point.
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Even when you do utilize the velo code (which is amazing) it still kills so much time because the studio editors painstakingly slow response time. (Yes Velo speeds things up & makes cool things possible but the editors slowness still outweighs this truth)
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On top of the fact that the servers begin to rate limit you increasingly more throughout your website build because your using more resources which is infuriating to say the least.
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**So whatā€™s a solution WIX would actually do?
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Editor Performance Plans
If we want to utilize more recourses while editing to get it done faster even with more complexity tied into the mix then why shouldnā€™t we able to?
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Those servers canā€™t be cheap to run & if we all had free rein over their recourses then WIX would be bankrupt over night in energy bills.
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So letā€™s make it clear to WIX
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  1. We understand this fact.
    &
  2. We love the editor enough that even though itā€™s extremely slow we are still here supporting you :index_pointing_at_the_viewer: because everything else is still great.

All we ask for is the ability to make our editor speed a choice instead of an unavoidable universal struggle that can never be fixed because you have to govern the server recourses to control overhead costs.

I would pay for the plan that lets me actually edit at the speed of a finger click the entire time & not just when I have nothing in the page.

Thanks G for showing me I wasnā€™t the only one fusterated.

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It is hard to understand how Wix is pricing the studio experience with a backend and especially an editor with itā€™s painful poor performance as a pro tool. i am just trying to load one of their templates and it takes minutes to get it displayed, i am not adding ne elements or blocks, i am only adapting colors, font styles, changing the imagery to small weighted webp images. And just moving to a new tab for the preview leads to the full painlful slow reload process again. i have been working with WP, framer, Webflow, Joomla and some more CMS/Web-builders. But havenā€™t experienced anything like that before. Which right letā€™s me really loose my trust into that solution and my decision to go with Wix.