[SOLVED] When I use a search for both my data and conditional, does Bubble do the search twice?

[fayewatson]

This was asked in the linked post below, and answered by Josh

“For example, if I have a dozen elements that need to run the same search, is it better to have one hidden element run the search and then have the visible elements reference that hidden element’s value?”

Generally, no. Bubble is smart enough that if two things do the exact same search, it’ll be able to combine them automatically.

Performance Q&A guide

So some overall guidelines. Note that these kinds of guidelines definitely have a sell-by date, since we’re always trying to optimize slow stuff, but here are some of the big performance levers: The more data a search fetches, the longer it takes. That probably sounds pretty basic, but we routinely see pages that fetch thousands of data items on page load. Or, we sometimes see searches that only fetch a few things – but each thing has KBs or MBs of text data stored in its field. Bubble …