Everything is pretty slow

[irevoire]

Description
Hello, I was trying out this super cool demo and noticed everything was pretty slow.

As you can see most requests took ~100ms to get to me, while meilisearch was usually able to answer in ~5ms.

From what I see the reason is pretty simple, we're retrieving the entire document when we only need its title and poster.
This means we're downloading 120ko when we actually only need a few ko of data 😒

I guess the fix is pretty simple, you should send a search request that looks like this;

{
  "attributesToHighlight": ["title"],
  "attributesToRetrieve": [],
  // the other fields stay as usual
}

Also, I don't know if it's normal but I can't see the highlighting on my computer, thus maybe we could just remove the attributesToHighlight entirely.

[mdubus]

Hello @irevoire 👋

Thanks a lot for opening this issue.

we're retrieving the entire document when we only need its title and poster

I'm not sure I understood correctly what you mean, but we are retrieving the entire document because we need all its fields to display them inside the modal:

Therefore, we cannot request just a few fields because we need all of them 🥲

Regarding the highlighting, it's totally normal and it's voluntary not to display it, so I will remove this setting as you suggest 👍

[irevoire]

Oh, ok, I missed this page; I guess the sensible thing to do would be to only query these data when someone clicks on a movie with the /documents/{uid} route. But that's non-trivial 😔

Feel free to close if you don't have the time to look into it.

[mdubus]

Thanks a lot @irevoire 🙏

I considered doing this, but this would mean having 2 meilisearch clients to do so:

• the one of Instant Meilisearch to have this beautiful homepage with the placeholder
• the one of Meilisearch JS to query a specific movie on click and display it inside the modal

This is completely feasible (I've done it before on the mini-dashboard), but it adds complexity to the project and it's harder to maintain and make evolve.

I'll close this issue (but thanks again for your time investigating and opening this issue!) as I don't really know if this is something we really want to implement and as I don't have the time to dig it now, but we could definitely discuss it again in the future ☺️

[bidoubiwa]

If it is slow don't we lose a bit of the purpose of this demo? Since we want to showcase above anything else the speed and relevancy of Meilisearch, if we show slowness it might give the user the idea that we are only relevant but that we are not a fast search engine.

[mdubus]

That makes sense, I'll reopen this issue then, but I don't know when I'll have time to work on it 😃