One immediate change I'd suggest is to avoid showing all 1000 items. Use the ex:showAll=false attribute in the list view to arrange for the view to show only some of the items. This will reduce the cost of exhibit parsing and rendering all the lenses, and will also reduce the time spent manipulating the DOM to insert al the items. You can use ex:abbreviatedCount to determine the exact number of items to show. The facets will still filter all the items and let people home in on the subset of items they want. You can find documentation at http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/Exhibit/Tile_View As a second step, I'd investigate how much time it is taking to pull the 1000 items out of the google spreadsheet. Conceivably, if you switched to a "native" format like a json file on your server, it could get faster.
On Aug 8, 10:25 pm, Skip T <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I am new to using Exhibit and have managed to get an educational site > set up. My data file (Google spreadsheet) has grown to 2000 entries > and I was looking for suggestions about how to improve the performance > since the script is running slowly. I installed GCF in IE and it > helped but I do not want my end users having to do this. Do you have > any suggestions? I have heard about MIT Picker as a possibility but > have no idea what needs to be done or how to do it. My site > ishttp://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/math/index10.htmlif you want to > preview it to get an idea of what I am doing. > > Thanks for any help you can give! > Skip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
