--- title: How Notion Decreased Latency by 20% with Caching | daily.dev description: Notion boosted page navigation speed by 20% on its website by implementing client-side caching using SQLite and WebAssembly. They utilized a 'SharedWorker'... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-notion-decreased-latency-by-20-with-caching-ohiansx2y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Notion Decreased Latency by 20% with Caching | daily.dev og:description: Notion boosted page navigation speed by 20% on its website by implementing client-side caching using SQLite and WebAssembly. They utilized a 'SharedWorker'... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-notion-decreased-latency-by-20-with-caching-ohiansx2y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ohiaNsx2y.png og:image:alt: How Notion Decreased Latency by 20% with Caching og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Notion Decreased Latency by 20% with Caching **[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 8 min read · 42 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Notion boosted page navigation speed by 20% on its website by implementing client-side caching using SQLite and WebAssembly. They utilized a 'SharedWorker' architecture to handle data writing, resolving issues related to database corruption and slow disk reads. This approach significantly improved user experience without regressing other performance metrics. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@okokok** · 2 upvotes > Kinda scary honestly to let browsers adjust files on the file system. I'll make sure to disable this feature off my browsers. > > p.s you can disable it in firefox with `about:config` and then looking for `dom.fs.access.enabled` key and setting its value to 0 --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#webassembly](https://daily.dev/tags/webassembly), [#sqlite](https://daily.dev/tags/sqlite) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-notion-decreased-latency-by-20-with-caching-ohiansx2y) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Notion Decreased Latency by 20% with Caching","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-notion-decreased-latency-by-20-with-caching-ohiansx2y","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-notion-decreased-latency-by-20-with-caching-ohiansx2y"},"datePublished":"2024-08-03T18:32:47.545Z","dateModified":"2024-08-03T18:33:02.085Z","description":"Notion boosted page navigation speed by 20% on its website by implementing client-side caching using SQLite and WebAssembly. 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