[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Loading Page very very slow ## - **[fabius](/forum/user/43627-fabius "View fabius's Profile")** - [![fabius's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/43627-fabius "View fabius's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/43627-fabius) Less More - Posts: 9 - Thank you received: 0 - - 6 years 3 months ago [\#322745](#322745) by [fabius](/forum/user/43627-fabius "View fabius's Profile") *[Loading Page very very slow](/forum/25-install-update/900548-loading-page-very-very-slow#322745 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.3.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.20 -- PHP version -- : 7 Hello i have a hikashop website with products that has 240 variants each. Loading a product page is very very slow. I have read of improving sql with indexing but i am afraid it's out of my knowledge. Can somebody help me to speed up the website loading times? Thank you very much.")* was created by *[fabius](/forum/user/43627-fabius "View fabius's Profile")* -- HikaShop version -- : 4.3.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.20 -- PHP version -- : 7 Hello i have a hikashop website with products that has 240 variants each. Loading a product page is very very slow. I have read of improving sql with indexing but i am afraid it's out of my knowledge. Can somebody help me to speed up the website loading times? Thank you very much. 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Loading a product page is very very slow. I have read of improving sql with indexing but i am afraid it's out of my knowledge. Can somebody help me to speed up the website loading times? Thank you very much.")* Hi, In 99% of the cases, performances issues with the variants is because they are used for something you don't need them for, and thus, improving the speed is not a matter of improving the sql / server processing, etc but configuring the products differently. The first thing I would recommend it to check if you can remove one or several characteristics from the products. There are two ways to do that: - you split the product into several products. So for example, for the product you provided, you could have 3 products, one for each color of the frame and that would reduce the number of variants for each product to 80, which is much more manageable. - having variants for a product is usually used because you want to have a different stock for each variant, or a different price for each variant, or a different image for each variant, etc so that the information displayed on the product page switches when the new variant is selected. I checked your page but it seems that for most of your characteristics, regardless of what I select in the dropdown, nothing changes. In that case, rather than having a characteristic, you could instead have a custom field of the table "item" (you can create that via the menu Display>Custom fields). So for example, if you remove the frame color characteristic and use instead a custom item field, that will also reduce the number of variants to 80, drastically improving the performances. 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