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Extremely slow Editor access to HTML/CSS theme files
Been using Weebly for a number of years. Noticed lately that Editor access to the underlying theme files has slowed considerably. Some of my sites take well over a minute to get to the files. Never used to be the case. Seems pretty consistent between different browsers,accounts, sites and internet connections. Yes, I've cleared my cache many times. I've noticed that script tags are now loaded within the Editor window and page JS runs within the Editor. Definitely something that wasn't happening a while back as well.
Just curious if anyone else has noticed a markedly slower Weebly interface in the last couple months and if anyone has been able to improve the response time of the Editor? Or has server speed in general just declined?

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Is the JS running in the editor code that you added to the theme, @dragnet?
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Hey Adam. Yes it is. It's not dumped into the page via an Embed Code struct it's loaded via <script> tags in the HTML theme templates. I've noticed that the code now runs within the Editor, which is something it did not do a few months ago. Again, I don't think this is the cause of the slow loading of backend files, just something that is making the Editor a bit sluggish compared to the old implementation. Would be great to be able to configure whether JS is loaded and run within the builder for an individual site.
Back to the slow loading of the theme backend. The call that hangs for upwards of a minute, sometimes more is:
https://www.weebly.com/api/JsonRPC/Theme/?Theme[Theme::getThemeFiles]
The wait is usually 1 to 1.5 minutes for the server to respond. Loading time is usually between 1.5 and 2 seconds once it does. I get some of my sites incorporate a lot of custom code, which you guys don't support. Only reason I'm speaking up is that I haven't changed any of my sites over the Summer. They used to be responsive. Given that the site in question is only 15mb large, with 99% of that being images which shouldn't be loading into the editor anyway, it seems over a minute is pretty excessive to fetch and return a Mb or so of HTML/JS/CSS code and folder/filenames. Something has changed on the server side regarding how a site is loaded and or cached. Don't know if the theme structures used to be cached on the server for a certain amount of time after initially being accessed and now that is not the case? Are the folders/files and structures completely rebuilt from the database on each request to getThemeFiles?
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Ouch, that is definitely an unusually long load time. Out of curiosity, how much faster is it if it doesn't include those extra script resources?
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Hey Adam. Doesn't seem to make a difference with or without the script resources. I only mentioned them as they seem to slow down the editor in general as they run. Doesn't seem to affect loading times of theme files though.
On a positive note, each successive day I've been editing and publishing this site, it's been getting faster. I've had theme load times as fast as 1 second now. Seems to be in the 8 to 12 second range in general now. Still a few loads in the 1 minute range but getting rarer and rarer. It would seem the more activity a site shows the faster the server priority and or server caching seems to become. The editor, in general has become usable again. Not sure if this will continue to be the case or if it's just a temporary improvement.
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Hopefully it was a temporary issue and will continue to work as expected! Let us know if you start noticing the slow behavior again.
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Hey everyone. Found a setting in my site's manifest.json that turns off editor JS execution. Makes the editor WAY, WAY more responsive loading and modifying pages if you have custom JS imported into your page. For my theme it was in the manifest.json and the setting is "enableEditorJS". Was set to true by default. Change to false and you should be good to go...
Cheers.

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Nice. That's definitely good news to hear.
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