# Has anyone thought about the workspace becoming really slow? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs\ **Tags:** using-replit, bug\ **Created:** [May 30, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807 "2025-05-30T16:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ddCreeper602](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@ddCreeper602](https://replit.discourse.group/u/ddCreeper602)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807/1 "2025-05-30T16:16:27Z")
Is it just me, or does everyone think that Replit is insanely slow? Is it because of the big project or what? It takes 5 seconds just to use the navbar and another 7 to open a file, not even mentioning scrolling down. If anyone can fix this, please tell me, can I fix this crazy lag with a Google extension, or am I doing anything wrong? I mean, I’ll wait 13 seconds but when I keep editing different files, these few seconds add up; approximately 20-30% of my time is spent waiting for files to open… \*I have Replit Core ---
**Author:** ![realfunnyeric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/realfunnyeric/32/2150_2.png) [@realfunnyeric](https://replit.discourse.group/u/realfunnyeric)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807/2 "2025-05-30T19:21:47Z")
Not experiencing this, and we have some massive projects. ---
**Author:** ![ddCreeper602](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@ddCreeper602](https://replit.discourse.group/u/ddCreeper602)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807/3 "2025-05-31T05:20:59Z")
Wait, how though? Is it suppose to take up 2.5 GB memory? ---
**Author:** ![mark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/mark/32/196_2.png) [@mark](https://replit.discourse.group/u/mark)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807/4 "2025-05-31T17:25:41Z")
For me it feels faster. However, a couple of thoughts: - Ensure you create new chats with Agent or Assistant after the chats start getting really long. This helps keep things snappy. - Periodically, at least daily, close the tab (or browser completely) of the Replit tab and open it up. This helps keeps things fresh. ---
**Author:** ![ddCreeper602](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@ddCreeper602](https://replit.discourse.group/u/ddCreeper602)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 10:32am UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807/5 "2025-06-02T10:32:07Z")
Thanks! I’ll try out your advice. ---
**Author:** ![gregjagiello](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/gregjagiello/32/1242_2.png) [@gregjagiello](https://replit.discourse.group/u/gregjagiello)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807/6 "2025-06-07T18:37:53Z")
A couple of things to try: - If you are like me and upload tons of screenshots while guiding Agent or Assistant, these really slow down the environment. I had 200+ in the attached\_assets folder, didn’t realize it, then deleted all and got a huge speed boost just from that. - Ask Agent or Assitance to review your project and look for issues that may be causing performance issues or overusing compute. I tell it do not take action until I say so, and to tackle any issues in priority order, let me test my app to make sure it still works, then only move on to the next suggestion once I have approved. Those two have worked in 90% of cases where my environment was crawling, hope this is helpful! ---
**Author:** ![realfunnyeric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/realfunnyeric/32/2150_2.png) [@realfunnyeric](https://replit.discourse.group/u/realfunnyeric)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807/7 "2025-06-22T06:39:37Z")
Great reminder to clean house! I also use lots of screenshots. I’m sure we all do. ---
**Author:** ![mark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/mark/32/196_2.png) [@mark](https://replit.discourse.group/u/mark)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-thought-about-the-workspace-becoming-really-slow/4807/8 "2025-06-23T15:07:57Z")
Agreed. Also consider adding attached\_assets to .gitignore if you don’t want those files being saved to git and GitHub if you sync. The default .gitignore is pretty basic, so could be an area to add more default.