Progressive Rendering in Communities

Author

mirketa

September 25, 2019

With Salesforce releasing progressive rendering in Communities in the Summer 2018 release, one can have finer control over display time performance and polish your community’s experience to better engage customers. This feature is available only in Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions.

What is Progressive Rendering?

Progressive Rendering of pages and images in its simplest is a technique in which the page begins to appear, and the text can be read even before all the text and/or images have been completely downloaded.

Need for Progressive Rendering in Community Cloud

Some of your Community pages might take a long time to load before you see the components rendered on the screen. This degrades the user experience with your community. But don’t worry Progressive Rendering comes to your rescue.

Progressive Rendering is designed to help improve the performance of your page by fetching and rendering page components in a parallel and prioritized manner. You can run a Community optimizer tool which is available as a chrome extension to see if Progressive Rendering is a good choice for your community pages and to get suggestions on how to prioritize your components. It can also help you evaluate the performance impact of your configurations.

Getting started with Progressive Rendering in Community Builder:

1. Enable Progressive Rendering from Community Builder advanced settings.

2. Select a component and click on Assign Display Priority in the builder.

3. Choose the appropriate priority and click Assign.

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