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6 useful tips to improve performance in Bubble

Petter Amlie · Amlie Solutions Free Intermediate

A free, focused shortlist of the highest leverage fixes from the author of the definitive performance book. If you cannot buy the book yet, this is the fastest way to get his core thinking on searches, element count, and structure. Practical enough to apply the same afternoon.

  • Keep visible element count and repeating group rows low
  • Constrain searches so they return dozens of rows, not thousands
  • Structure data around how you read it, not just how you store it
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The question it answers

  1. My Bubble app slows to a crawl once I have a few thousand records. How do I fix performance without rebuilding in code?

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