Any news about marking touch and wheel event listeners as `passive` to improve page's scroll performance

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#1

Hi,

It is atopic that has a precedent in August 2018, comes from July 2019, followed up in March 2020 and in June 2020.

Thanks!

#2

Hey Diego,

Thanks for reaching out!

I check the feature request tracker and they partially implemented to the theme. I’ll add this as a request again so that they will remember this feature.

Cheers!

#4

Hey @marc_a,

I would not call it “a feature”. It has more to do with making the theme and builder, with all their existing features, more performant. I think –after more than 3 years– it has become a necessity to solve this issue at once as it is essential to get good scores in Google Lighthouse and Google PageSpeed audits. I love the evolution of your products in terms of the new features that have been added but I would like to see a bigger effort to keep performance at its highest levels.

Thanks!

#5

Hey Diego,

We really appreciate your love for our theme to become the best in the market! Rest assured that our developers will check again on your concerns.

Thank you.

#6

Hi @marc_a,

Have your developers checked again on my concerns yet –btw, concerns shared by other users as well–?

If so, have they given a time frame (ETA) to get this 3 year-old issue solved?

Please, if a solution was not possible due to the technical debt intrinsic to the evolution of the product (which I understand is inevitable in any product of this nature), please I would appreciate a straight answer.

Thank you.

#7

Hey @diegocanal

This is being looked at by the devs for the upcoming update that is currently in beta (more here: https://theme.co/forum/t/scroll-blocking-event-warnings/97457) We’ll probably know more about whether a fix will be included closer to release, which should be later this month.

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#8

Hi @JvP,

Thanks for stepping in. I am not quite sure if the topic you opened covers the whole issue, though I hope you are right and it will be solved soon.

It might not have an obvious solution as 3 years have passed since the first time I reported the issue. The devs attempted to fix it 2 years ago and they only managed to solve it partially.

I wish someone from de dev team shed some light on this matter, perhaps @alexander would be the ideal person as he responded to the first thread I opened in 2019.

Thank you.

#9

Yeah it would be great to have this fixed. If you look at vids comparing a page with and without passive event listeners it’s quite a dramatic improvement to the scroll performance.

#10

Hey guys,

We have notified our development team about this. Please stay tuned for updates.

Thanks.

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#11

Hey @christian,

Could you please clarify if by “stay tuned” you mean that we will have news about this issue for the incoming release? I’m asking for a more precise answer because we’ve been tuned for updates on this issue for 3 years already.

Thanks.

#12

Hey Diego,

Yes, please do test the next release as handlers were made passive when possible in the beta version.

Thanks.

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#13

Hey @christian,

Thanks for the clarification. What worries me is that it seems that this issue will not be fully solved in the next release. Is there an ETA for the complete solution?

Thank you.

#14

Regretfully, we do not have an ETA. That’s currently our best suggestion. Please stay tuned for the next release.

Thanks.