Datatable rendering slow

Datatable rendering slow

hrasthrast Posts: 17Questions: 5Answers: 0

Hello, DataTables community!

I have a problem with rendering a DataTable for 2500 rows. It takes about 5 seconds to render it all. Also, when I am searching something with a Search... box it is kind of unresponsive. It takes about a second to really to see letter/number that I pressed on my keyborard.
What I am doing is fill table with data with a for loop in html. It looks something like this:
<table id="something" class="display"> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col">Datum</th> //here goes more columns </tr> </thead> <tbody> {% for values in data%} <tr> {% for value in values %} <td>{{value}}</td> {% endfor %} </tr> {% endfor %} </tbody> </table>

After that, i initialize DataTable in javascript with paging disabled and searchPanes. I also use rowGroup.endRender() to create subtotals in my table. I looked at server side processing discussions but before I begin implementing that I would like to know if I have missed something.
Also, if someone knows a good way to implement server side processing in datatables when I get data from DataFrame in Python (Django view).

Thanks in advance, I hope I explained it as I should.

P.S. I would just like to say great job and keep going! I love DataTables!

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  • colincolin Posts: 15,240Questions: 1Answers: 2,599
    edited May 2020

    This section of the FAQ should help, it discusses various techniques to improve performance,

    If that doesn't help, we're happy to take a look, but as per the forum rules, please link to a test case - a test case that replicates the issue will ensure you'll get a quick and accurate response. Information on how to create a test case (if you aren't able to link to the page you are working on) is available here.

    Cheers,

    Colin

  • hrasthrast Posts: 17Questions: 5Answers: 0

    Thank you, @colin.
    I would really like to give you a test case, but it is really sensitive information and it would take me a whole lot of time to simulate something similar here.

    What I did was enabled paging and disabled scrolling. Now it is working pretty fast and it looks like it solved all of my problems but now I have a new problem - my subtotals are calculated for only current page.

    Let's say that I have 50 rows for one date(5/7/2020) and my datatable pagelength is set on 25. It shows subtotal for 25 rows on page 1 and for 25 rows on page 2. What I would like to is to get the subtotal only once. Is there any way to do that?
    Code for subtotal:
    rowGroup: { startRender: null, endRender: function (rows, group) { totals[group] = []; var counter = 0; var brojac = 0; var zbroj = 0; var soll = {}; var nettoSum = rows .data() .pluck(7) .reduce(function (a, b) { return a + b * 1; }, 0);

    Thanks in advance!

  • colincolin Posts: 15,240Questions: 1Answers: 2,599

    This thread should help with that - it's showing how to total over the current page and the entire group,

    Colin

  • hrasthrast Posts: 17Questions: 5Answers: 0

    Thank you for quick response, @colin! This solved my problem!

  • hrasthrast Posts: 17Questions: 5Answers: 0
    edited May 2020

    @colin, I can't seem to mark your post as answer here.

  • colincolin Posts: 15,240Questions: 1Answers: 2,599

    I think that's because it was started as a discussion, rather than a question. But is fine, glad to have helped! :)

    Colin

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