search within ~10 seconds of page load is very slow

[lidermanrony]

Operation System: (Windows or Linux or MacOS)
Windows
DocFX Version Used:
All of them
Template used: (default or statictoc or contain custom template)
default
Steps to Reproduce:

1. browse to https://aka.ms/kusto
2. any search within the ~10 seconds of page load will return only after 10 seconds passed from time page loads.

Expected Behavior:
wait less than a second.
This is very common in documentation websites to load the page and the immediately search.
Actual Behavior:
wait for more than 10 seconds

Looks like the issue is that lunr.js is building the index on-the-fly on page-load in a search-worker.js.
but this is a static website - the index can be persisted and then just loaded instead of building an index every time.

here is documentation on that from lunr.js website on how to use pre-build indexes.

[sloutsky]

+1

[jruales]

Just to clarify, this slowness doesn't seem to be during the first search per se, but rather during the first ~8 seconds after each page load. So a more exact repro would be: Any searches within ~8 seconds of page load will be incredibly slow, lasting up to ~8 seconds, and any searches after that will be fast.

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[jruales]

Any update on this issue?

[superyyrrzz]

Sorry for the late reply. Looks like prebuild index can help. Although the index could be large that slows down the first lunch, it should improve the following searching.

[jruales]

This issue is also affecting the internal Geneva documentation (https://genevamondocs.azurewebsites.net/), where the search feature can take >30 seconds to start working after any page load