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Asked: 2026-06-01T04:04:56+00:00

I’m making a single page application, and one approach I am considering is keeping

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I’m making a single page application, and one approach I am considering is keeping all of the templates as part of the single-page DOM tree (basically compiling server-side and sending in one page). I don’t expect each tree to be very complicated.

Given this, what’s the maximum number of nodes on the tree before a user on a mediocre computer/browser begins to see performance degradation? For example, 6 views stored as 6 hidden nodes each with 100 subnodes of little HTML bits.

Thanks for the input!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The short of it is, you’re going to hit a bandwidth bottleneck before you’d ever hit a DOM size bottleneck.

    Well, I don’t have any mediocre machines lying around. The only way to find out something like that is to test it. It will be different for every browser, every CPU.

    Is your application javascript?

    If yes, you should consider only loading in the templates you need usinx XHR, as you’re going to be more concerned with loadtime for mobile than performance on a crappy HP from 10 years ago.

    I mean, hearing what you describe should be technically reasonable for any machine of this decade, but you should not load that much junk up front.

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