Speeding Up File Load Times, One Page At A Time | Figma Blog

Figma files are often large and complex with endless pages, library and local components, and prototype screens. Here’s how dynamic page loading improved the slowest load times by 33%. Illustrations by María Medem For the slowest 5% of page loads, we’ve seen a 33% decrease in load times. Every engineering team wants its product to feel fast. Beyond giving users the best possible experience, how quickly something loads fundamentally shapes their first impressions. This is especially true for us; users often spend their whole workday in Figma, so incremental performance improvements that save seconds add up over the course of a workday. As Figma’s product teams build more features and users add more content to their files, our platform teams strive to uphold and improve performance. Our ideal load time trend is down-and-to-the-right: We want file load times to decrease over time even as files increase in size. Performance should correspond to user-perceived complexity. If a user loads a

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