With the power of our new dashboard functionality you can do some pretty neat things, though one of the largest benefits was the ability to create a dashboard with no parts. An empty dashboard should give enormous gains in terms of loading times as you will have a small base page and have the added advantage of not having to download any of the extra images or wait for the loading of the parts themselves.

In dealing with file sizes, your new dashboards page will be around 41k without any dashboard parts. Also if this is your first time to this page you'll have additional files such as scripts and images to download, which could total around 169k for your total transfer time.  Typically you won't have to download those extra files, but it’s still something that you might be concerned about.

On other end of the spectrum, your default dashboard (such as mine on our local internal server) which probably has one of all the components, would be around 134k and including its ancillary files can get up to 300k and beyond.

The Daptiv User Experience team is very focused on getting these sizes down; we've implemented compression and new caching systems into our code base to allow you to do your work faster. We'll be reducing the amount you have to consistently download each page refresh these next few months, and in the future we hope the amount of dashboard parts on your dashboard won't be a loading time concern. Until then, we suggest that if you’re not using the dashboard components hide them for your default view, and build some other views to track all your wonderful data.