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How to find loading bottleneck of a slow-loading SAPUI5 app

I'm building a custom SAPUI5 app which consists of a seven diagrams (sap.viz.ui5.controls.VizFrame) in the page's header content (nested inside a sap.suite.ui.commons.ChartContainer) and a grid table (sap.ui.table.Table) in the main content area. The data for the charts and the table is provided by an OData V2 Service and the app is running stand-alone on the latest version (1.81.0).

The problem is the long loading time of the app. It takes between 7 and 20 seconds. Is this common for a "more complex" app? I tried to find the bottleneck but everything looks fine. Many network requests are cached (they take 0ms), however, there is a slight delay in between them and I can't see why. Additionally, there is the following warning in the console, although I'm using the data-sap-async="true" in my index.html file:

[Deprecation] Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/. [syncXHRFix-dbg.js:211:15]

Code snippets of my index.html and manifest.json

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <title>Loading - Customer Fact Sheet</title>
        <script id="sap-ui-bootstrap"
            src="resources/sap-ui-core.js"
            data-sap-ui-theme="sap_fiori_3"
            data-sap-ui-resourceroots='{"com.schott.fiori.customerfactsheet.customerfactsheet-fiori3": "./"}'
            data-sap-ui-compatVersion="edge"
            data-sap-ui-oninit="module:sap/ui/core/ComponentSupport"
            data-sap-ui-async="true"
            data-sap-ui-frameOptions="trusted">
        </script>
        <link href="https://www.schott.com/static/assets/gfx/favicon/SCHOTT_16.png" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" />
    </head>
    <body class="sapUiBody">
        <div data-sap-ui-component data-name="com.schott.fiori.customerfactsheet.customerfactsheet-fiori3" data-id="container" data-settings='{"id" : "customerfactsheet-fiori3"}'></div>
    </body>
</html>

{
    "_version": "1.12.0",
    "sap.app": {
        "id": "com.schott.fiori.customerfactsheet.customerfactsheet-fiori3",
        "type": "application",
        "i18n": "i18n/i18n.properties",
        "applicationVersion": {
            "version": "1.0.0"
        },
        "title": "{{appTitle}}",
        "description": "{{appDescription}}",
        "sourceTemplate": {
            "id": "servicecatalog.connectivityComponentForManifest",
            "version": "0.0.0"
        },
        "dataSources": {
            "YODATA_SD_CFS_MATRIX_SRV": {
                "uri": "/sap/opu/odata/sap/YODATA_SD_CFS_MATRIX_SRV/",
                "type": "OData",
                "settings": {
                    "localUri": "localService/metadata.xml"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "sap.ui": {
        "technology": "UI5",
        "icons": {
            "icon": "",
            "favIcon": "",
            "phone": "",
            "phone@2": "",
            "tablet": "",
            "tablet@2": ""
        },
        "deviceTypes": {
            "desktop": true,
            "tablet": true,
            "phone": true
        }
    },
    "sap.ui5": {
        "flexEnabled": false,
        "rootView": {
            "viewName": "com.schott.fiori.customerfactsheet.customerfactsheet-fiori3.view.Main",
            "type": "XML",
            "async": true,
            "id": "Main"
        },
        "dependencies": {
            "minUI5Version": "1.65.6",
            "libs": {
                "sap.ui.layout": {},
                "sap.ui.core": {},
                "sap.m": {}
            }
        },
        "contentDensities": {
            "compact": true,
            "cozy": false
        },
        "models": {
            "i18n": {
                "type": "sap.ui.model.resource.ResourceModel",
                "settings": {
                    "bundleName": "com.schott.fiori.customerfactsheet.customerfactsheet-fiori3.i18n.i18n"
                }
            },
            "": {
                "type": "sap.ui.model.odata.v2.ODataModel",
                "settings": {
                    "defaultOperationMode": "Client",
                    "defaultBindingMode": "OneWay",
                    "defaultCountMode": "Request"
                },
                "dataSource": "YODATA_SD_CFS_MATRIX_SRV",
                "preload": true
            }
        },
        "resources": {
            "css": [{
                "uri": "css/style.css"
            }]
        },
        "routing": {
            "config": {
                "routerClass": "sap.m.routing.Router",
                "viewType": "XML",
                "async": true,
                "viewPath": "com.schott.fiori.customerfactsheet.customerfactsheet-fiori3.view",
                "controlAggregation": "pages",
                "controlId": "app",
                "clearControlAggregation": false
            },
            "routes": [{
                "name": "RouteMain",
                "pattern": "RouteMain",
                "target": ["TargetMain"]
            }],
            "targets": {
                "TargetMain": {
                    "viewType": "XML",
                    "transition": "slide",
                    "clearControlAggregation": false,
                    "viewId": "Main",
                    "viewName": "Main"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "sap.platform.hcp": {
        "uri": "webapp",
        "_version": "1.1.0"
    }
}

Screenshots of my network tab

Network 1

Network 2

Network 3

Network 4

Solution

  • As the Network tab shows, there are many modules loading sequentially one by one and many of them even via sync XHR. The most important task is to avoid use of sync XHRs.

    Overall, the above points should should already improve the initial loading time noticeably. For more performance guidelines, go through the Performance Checklist and other Best Practices for Developers.

    Other things to consider

    I18n

    In order to reduce the number of requests consider dropping the i18n-support altogether if the app targets only a certain group of people speaking the same language. Multiple requests for i18n text bundles are expensive and may cause synchronous XHRs if not configured correctly. There is a way to load the i18n resources asynchronously and also specifying which locales the app supports, but that's for another topic.

    OData Model

    UI5 Tooling

    Build the app bundle via UI5 Tooling which reduces the number of server requests and, in case of a self-contained build, the application size as well.