Hi, I have been happily using both the site and the iPhone app since last summer, and most extensively since November. I really love them. I noticed performance of both web and ios-app is oscillating at different times of the day or week. However, overall, it is incredibly slow to add annotations…

Hi @codrin_bucur , welcome to the iNaturalist Forum! Thanks for filling out the template. I’ve noticed slow annotation loading times for over a year when adding on the website. As far as slow loading times for adding agreeing IDs, I have never experienced anything as extreme as 30 or 60 seconds. I ju…

Hi @bouteloua , Thanks for the quick reply. As I said, this behaviour fluctuates a lot. I just did another round of tests on both devices (30 minutes after the previous ones) and I had about the same performance like you (6-8 seconds) I don’t know what is causing this but performance is different …

I have noticed this too. I am pretty sure that in times past, you could just hit “agree” and move to the next ID and you didn’t need to wait for the agree to load before moving on. Having to wait, and it taking 10 seconds or so, is a big slowdown in a large batch of IDs. I don’t have anything to a…

You don’t need to wait for the identification to update visually, once you press the agree button or the “a” key, it will register in the system, and you can move on to the next observation.

I noticed that occasionally, I added a ID or comment, which fail to upload (or register). Afterwards I may or may not noticed this. This is on the national University network so it is reasonably fast (for the dark continent). This has been ongoing from 2020.

I’ve had the exact same thing. I hit agree for an observation and, even after waiting 10-15 seconds in some cases, when I hit refresh that ID did not save and it was as if I never hit agree

If I have to, I would rather wait, and make sure that iNat is keeping up with me. I have noticed if I check Performance, that the CPU shot up to 100% when I open iNat. Too data heavy for my old laptop? Perhaps we need an option in our settings for s l o w loading to be supported. (I use that for Gm…

It should be like this but it doesn’t always work. If you move on and come back. Or you hit “agree” and then go to add an annotation, either the “agree” is missing or the annotation is missing. Actually the asynchronicity / parallelism doesn’t seem to work most times.

It’s an old topic, but if you add it or click agree in id mod and you see the spinning wheel, it means it’s getting added, if not – do it again and it will be added, just go further as fast as possible and better to not come back very soon, then after refreshing page you can see ids where added, I n…

Maybe, generally it’s good for me, I got through the whole page, then click on review all and wait until it ends up spinning, then I hope enough time went by to get all saved, but I have to be honest in last month it shows more of “didn’t save” messages, but at least those appear.

Performance issue when agreeing with ID - very slow on both web and iOS app - #19 by bouteloua - Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views	Activity
Slow loading time when adding annotations Bug Reports	6	1255	March 1, 2021
The Daily Slowdown General	31	1966	September 2, 2020
Annotation performance could be improved Bug Reports	15	975	July 18, 2021
Speed of IDs and Annotations General	62	1731	July 10, 2025
Website Running Slow/Errors General	14	2189	April 30, 2019

Slow loading time when adding annotations

Bug Reports

6

1255

March 1, 2021

The Daily Slowdown

General

31

1966

September 2, 2020

Annotation performance could be improved

Bug Reports

15

975

July 18, 2021

Speed of IDs and Annotations

General

62

1731

July 10, 2025

Website Running Slow/Errors

General

14

2189

April 30, 2019

Performance issue when agreeing with ID - very slow on both web and iOS app

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