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For a web based excel tool, Google Sheets has really good performance IMO. Other alternative is Microsoft Online Excel, which is quite slow, bloated and cough horrible.

If you have highly interactive data in cells, (eg: svg graphs), scroll performance can be improved by enabling `snap`. With this only one row/column will scroll at a time.

I tried manipulating small datasets (overclocking results by CPU), under 500 rows, and the performance was abysmal.

Maybe not performance, but responsiveness ? The UI was lagging.

It was in Firefox, a few years ago, and I never went back to it.

MS Office 2010 is much snappier.

What bothers me is the startup time. The Time to Interactive is about 10 seconds on my Google Sheet with 850 rows and 3 columns. This is just for personal use to store the names of songs that I like, so the slowness is annoying enough to where I'm looking for alternatives.