# Plugins and Performance

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/plugins-and-performance/31433>\
**Category:** Plugins\
**Created:** [June 15, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/plugins-and-performance/31433 "2018-06-15T00:42:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bradluffy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/bradluffy/32/955_2.png) [@Bradluffy](https://forum.bubble.io/u/Bradluffy)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/plugins-and-performance/31433/1 "2018-06-15T00:42:38Z")

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So as I am smoothing out my app I am considering to get a couple new plugins including the editable data table and the paint/signature pad. However I am also very concerned about performance.

Is there a way we can determine how much a particular plugin will slow down loading speeds? Is there a way to mitigate these effects? Can we see how much “weight” a particular plugin will have in terms of the app?

Any information or experience on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![nikolai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/nikolai/32/13582_2.png) [@nikolai](https://forum.bubble.io/u/nikolai)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/plugins-and-performance/31433/2 "2018-06-15T00:54:59Z")

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@Bradluffy - you may want to reach out to the plugin developer to see if they have any performance info for you. I haven’t used those plugins so can’t comment about their impact to performance (if any).

Secondly - here’s a snippet from this “Performance” thread from Josh:

“Plugins sometimes affect page load speed even if you aren’t using them. We often have to include the javascript to run the plugin as part of the page’s javascript whether or not you actually need that plugin, so my recommendation is if you know you aren’t using a plugin, to uninstall it.”

Here’s the full thread as there are other performance considerations you find useful:

> [@Performance Q&A guide](http://forum.bubble.io/t/performance-q-a-guide/12140/12):
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> Next batch of questions (skipping things that someone else already gave a good answer to in the thread): “If I have a bunch of image thumbnails on a page and the source is a full sized image does that mean the page has to wait for all of the full sized images to download?” Generally we’re good about resizing things on the server. But you can check for yourself: if you look at the image url in the browser, you’ll see something like: “?w=380.94643874044306&h=243.1&fit=crop” at the end of the …

Lastly - you may want to check out Cloudflare.

> [@Increase the Bubble page load speeds with Cloudflare](http://forum.bubble.io/t/increase-the-bubble-page-load-speeds-with-cloudflare/30752):
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> Hey Bubblers, we all know how important it is to have fast loading pages and we’ve seen that sometimes the speed might be an issue. We have discovered that Cloudflare can significantly improve the page load speeds. See screenshots for before and after for our web-site [https://bubblewits.com](https://bubblewits.com) Before After so it went from 5.75 seconds to 0.5 seconds (almost 10x faster!) we’ve seen the same results for [https://zeroqode.com](https://zeroqode.com) so if you’d like to experiment with this too here …