MODx Revolution 2.0.0-beta-1 Manager UI very slow

First of all, Congratulation for the new release! Well done MODx team.

Install worked fine on my Windows WAMP installation and I could install most snippets using the package interface. Only eForm seems missing.

I am pleased with the visual appearance of the new manager look. BUT is has a major drawback: It is VERY slow to work with. It takes several seconds for the pages to display between looking at different Web Resource pages. And this is on a local WAMP installation where the old Evolution Manager is lightning fast. Tried IE7 and FF3 (Firebug disabled). Both are similar in speed.

Is this something the development team is aware of?
Will this be addressed in future updates/releases?

Regards

Henrik

Though I dont think its VERY slow, but ofcourse we are aware of general slowness and thats why it has "beta" tag with it . This will surely be addressed with future releases. If you can test and pin point some of your findings, feel free to log then in JIRA (bug tracking).

eForm is not available for Revolution as yet, it really depends on the current maintainer how much time he/she needs to port it OR if somebody can help speed up the process, any help is very very welcome.

And thanks for the kind words. Community appreciation is what keeps us going.

Thanks for the reply. I perfectly understand that it is beta and there will be areas which need fine tuning.

One of the main issues I am observing is the refresh and redraw of the Resource/Content panel on the left side. Whenever a resource item on the content tree is clicked on, the whole panel is erased and redrawn from scratch which takes a while (3 to 4 secs on my machine). I know "a while" is subjective and depends on the speed of the machine and browser used. Compared to Revo, I find Modx 0.9.6 is very responsive and has almost no lag when working with the UI.

This may be a side effect from switching from mootools to Ext2 UI libraries.

hwmaier,

The UI is mostly JS driven and as such there may be a processor hit from the client. The 096 client had a lot more HTML and less JS and therefore was significantly lighter. We will be looking at optimizations, cleanups and generally ways to shrink the default manager.

Thanks for your interest.

Quote from: smashingred at Jun 01, 2009, 05:40 AM

We will be looking at optimizations, cleanups and generally ways to shrink the default manager.

Thank you. This is very much appreciated. I thought I run my browser on a reasonable fast machine with Intel Core Duo and 4 GB RAM and would think that other users have a similar experience with the UI.

I believe a reasonably performing UI is important for the overall acceptance and subsequently the success of the new Revolution design. What we don’t want is that new users try it and put this great framework in the "works but too sluggish" box.

Quote from: hwmaier at Jun 01, 2009, 05:07 AM

One of the main issues I am observing is the refresh and redraw of the Resource/Content panel on the left side. Whenever a resource item on the content tree is clicked on, the whole panel is erased and redrawn from scratch which takes a while (3 to 4 secs on my machine). I know "a while" is subjective and depends on the speed of the machine and browser used. Compared to Revo, I find Modx 0.9.6 is very responsive and has almost no lag when working with the UI.

3-4 seconds? Mine does not take nearly this long. You say you have firebug off - are there any other extensions running?

Also, can you check your apache/mysql/php logs for any possibly related errors.

Quote from: splittingred at Jun 01, 2009, 08:37 AM

Quote from: hwmaier at Jun 01, 2009, 05:07 AM

One of the main issues I am observing is the refresh and redraw of the Resource/Content panel on the left side. Whenever a resource item on the content tree is clicked on, the whole panel is erased and redrawn from scratch which takes a while (3 to 4 secs on my machine). I know "a while" is subjective and depends on the speed of the machine and browser used. Compared to Revo, I find Modx 0.9.6 is very responsive and has almost no lag when working with the UI.

3-4 seconds? Mine does not take nearly this long. You say you have firebug off - are there any other extensions running?

Also, can you check your apache/mysql/php logs for any possibly related errors.

Just to let you know:
No extensions running. Also tried IE7 which shows the same slowness. I checked the logs (PHP, mysql and httpd) and there are no errors. I even upgraded to the latest version of WAMP but no improvement.
Looks like the same issue reported now in a new post here:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,36366.0.html

I’ve found that with any of these AJAX heavy, Smarty-based interfaces (we use Open Goo for example for project management) run like a dream in Chrome or Safari 4 but are slow in Firefox and IE. The latest Firefox is due in a couple of weeks and will also feature a speedier JavaScript engine.

Without AJAX and JS the page loads would take longer. Lets not forget that the 096 document tree also refreshes, the document runs through the "cleaning up" process before reloading—all which gets progressively slower as your document count grows. This is not the case in Revolution. It is certainly not a compiled desktop app but as someone who uses literally dozens of AJAX based web apps every day and none nearing the complexity of MODx that it seems well inline w/ them including Google Apps and others.

We will definitely strive for improvement.

Cheers,

Jay

When you guys are saying about disabling Firebug, do you mean entirely, or just disabling the resource-heavy stuff like Console/Script/Net?