Kirby table is slow…

TimKinali · August 18, 2025, 9:36am

I didn’t upgrade to 5 yet. In 4.7 at least I see true/false when using rawvalues. So something seems to have changed in 5 in this regard.

The table performance thing is a known issue (I was hoping it had been fixed in Kirby 5).

github.com/getkirby/kirby

Page tables load very slow in 4.2

opened 07:03PM - 18 Apr 24 UTC

closed 05:08PM - 31 Jul 24 UTC

timkinali

## Description After updating to 4.2, some page sections with `layout: table` l…oad extremely slow. 100 pages ~10 seconds, 30 pages ~6 seconds. The issue goes away when changing layout to list, cardlets or cards. Confirmed by other users too. In the forum it was suggested by @rasteiner that the toggle field preview fix in this commit https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/75eb89cc27d35c0cd0da06680077462119bd2e88 can be the cause: "It seems to introduce a new instantiation (new Form($model)) which is run for every row in the table." ## Your setup **Kirby Version** Kirby 4.2 **Additional context** More details in the forum post https://forum.getkirby.com/t/page-sections-load-slow-kirby-4-2-issue/31373/3

github.com/getkirby/kirby

Performance issue: slow pages section with table layout

opened 05:08PM - 31 Jul 24 UTC

distantnative

## Problem description In Kirby 4.2 and 4.3, the pages section currently can …be hit by a drastic performance issue when used with table layout and using computational heavy parts anywhere in the blueprint (e.g. accessing a large index in a query). This is because our field and blueprint classes resolve everything very greedily, unfortunately. So setups that somewhere in the blueprint work with the site index or just any performance-heavy thing really get tolled as likely for every table row the blueprints are newly resolved etc. ## Current workaround From Kirby 4.4. onwards, you can add `rawvalues: true` to your section in the blueprint. What does it do: It reverts the behavior to pre-4.2, which is passing raw values from the content file to the table preview components. This can cause other problems with the field previews, e.g. the toggle field would receive a string not a bool. Some previews won't work then in your setup. Overall, we know this isn't a great solution. It's more a trade-off for developers as many setups might be fine with one of the two versions: Some are not faced with the performance issue and are happy with correctly passed values, others might be able to work around the broken field previews as long as the pages section doesn't completely slow down the Panel for them. ## Additional context Code that causes the performance issue: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/blob/main/config/sections/mixins/layout.php#L136-L150

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