I am building a single page app and I have a repeating group that displays a list of active users - however if have noticed that it usually takes a few second to load this list and I only have 5 active users in the database.
Is there something I can do to make it load the content a bit faster?
Much of this has to do with the data it is pulling in. You have it running a search, try to minimize filtering. Instead try to be very specific in your search values.
Filtering will mean that it downloads all users before displaying the data.