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I'd be very curious to hear about the sizes and use cases where you're seeing this. My understanding was that single file wikis could scale to a hundred megabytes and beyond, and I thought the nodejs version was more scalable than that due to lazy loading tiddlers. My wikis tend to be less than 20mb since I mostly use plain text for everything.

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I do make use of the `backlinks` query extensively, and I use saqimtiaz's wonderful `streams` [1] plugin to recreate a Roam-like experience. This setup leads to a large amount of small-sized tiddlers (2.5k and counting), which might add to the overhead.

Not to mention downloading and parsing 20mb-worth of html+js each time you open up the wiki can be quite slow.

As for lazy loading --- when enabled, it breaks the indexing (e.g. finding backlinks) and searching because these are done by the js inside the browser too. I only lazy-load images and binaries because they are not indexable anyway.

[1]: https://github.com/saqimtiaz/streams

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