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SharePoint Online - Page Load Time
The SharePoint response time in my tenant is really very very slow and takes around 10 sec for as simple a task as selecting a library from quick launch.
a) Are there any performance benchmarks...
I believe you may be experiencing the slowness of SharePoint online because you are using Structural Navigation... Check your site settings, navigation, and see if this is the case
Here is a Microsoft article regarding Navigation options for SharePoint Online
I believe I read a while ago that you could change the geographic settings so your content is saved on a server near your location.
Maybe others can confirm if this could be possible...
-Salva
You cannot change the geographical region of your tenant once it has been registered in O365.
There are multi-geo capabilities, but those are designed for data sovereignty, not performance. Multi-geo is a fairly new feature, requires separate licensing, and a total of 5000 seats minutes.
There are multi-geo capabilities, but those are designed for data sovereignty, not performance. Multi-geo is a fairly new feature, requires separate licensing, and a total of 5000 seats minutes.
Okay, thanks for clearing that up
For the time being the 'Managed Navigation' has improved the performance. There was about 3 seconds improvement noted after converting structural navigation (for about 60 links in the navigation) to managed navigation.
Within the "managed navigation" I used the mix of security-trimming (i.e. links points to folders) for common links and full security (links points to respective ".aspx" pages) for others important links which we didn't want to show to all audience. About 60% links were with security-trimmed.
During the peak-time (afternoon from office WiFi), it gives about 4.5 seconds of response time (averaged over 10 samples) and during the night time (around 10 pm EST from home WiFi) the response time is better about 3 seconds.
My test SharePoint page has quite a few Webparts (about 2 List WPs, 3 CQWPs, 1 RSS Feed, about 4 Content Editors WPs).
I think to further improve the time we would either have to limit the links further in our navigation. Other option we might have to go for a dedicated links (i.e. "expressroute" service from Microsoft). Does Micosoft offer any trial time for expressroute service?
Make sure you don't have any old closed web parts, those can really slow down the page. see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-and-use-the-Web-Part-Maintenance-Page-EFF9CE22-D04A-44DD-AE83-AC29A5E396C2
