NextJs router seems very slow compare to React Router

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NextJs router seems very slow compare to React Router

22.5k Views Asked by Muhammad Owais At 24 April 2025 at 14:03

I have a website built in React Js and the same one on Next Js as well.

The problem which I am facing right now is, the router seems very slow in the nextJs compare to react-router-dom, It's taking almost 2-3 seconds to change the route.

Here are the URLs where you can feel the difference between the performance by moving around different pages.

https://cutt.ly/mhbPkOE (React Router Dom) vs https://cutt.ly/BhbPvHv (NextJs)

I had read some comments on Github where few experts are saying that It will resolve in production. but It looks same in production too.

Please have a look at the following code

_app.jsx

// import App from 'next/app'
import React from "react"
import Router from 'next/router';

import "../static/sass/application.scss";

import "bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css";
import "slick-carousel/slick/slick.css";
import "slick-carousel/slick/slick-theme.css";
import 'semantic-ui-css/semantic.min.css'
import { wrapper } from "../../redux/utils/store"

import App from 'next/app';
// A simple component that we created
import {LoaderOverlay} from '../components/Reusable'
class MyApp extends App {
    constructor(props){
        super(props)
        this.state = {
            isLoading: false,
        }
        Router.onRouteChangeStart = (url) => {
            // Some page has started loading
            this.setState({
                isLoading: true,
            }) // set state to pass to loader prop
        };
    
        Router.onRouteChangeComplete = (url) => {
            // Some page has finished loading
            this.setState({
                isLoading: false,
            }) // set state to pass to loader prop
        };
    
        Router.onRouteChangeError = (err, url) => {
            this.setState({isLoading: false,})
        }; 
    };
    render() {
        const {Component, pageProps} = this.props
        return (
            <div>
                {this.state.isLoading ? (
                    <LoaderOverlay/>
                ) : (
                    <Component {...pageProps} />
                )}
            </div>
        )
    }
}
export default wrapper.withRedux(MyApp);

_document.jsx

import Document, { Html, Head, Main, NextScript } from 'next/document'

class MyDocument extends Document {
    static async getInitialProps(ctx) {
        const originalRenderPage = ctx.renderPage

        ctx.renderPage = () =>
            originalRenderPage({
            // useful for wrapping the whole react tree
            enhanceApp: (App) => App,
            // useful for wrapping in a per-page basis
            enhanceComponent: (Component) => Component,
            })

        // Run the parent `getInitialProps`, it now includes the custom `renderPage`
        const initialProps = await Document.getInitialProps(ctx)

        return initialProps
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <Html lang="en">
                <Head>
                <link async rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/semantic.min.css"/>
                </Head>
                <body>
                    <div className={'main-wrapper'}>
                        <Main />
                    </div>
                    <NextScript />
                </body>
            </Html>
        )
    }
}

export default MyDocument

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**Deegha galkissa** · Answer 1

I had the same issue. And I managed to speed things up a bit by doing the following

I had a fetch requests directly on the page so I guess the server has to do the fetching before rendering the UI so it takes time for the initial load.
I moved this request to another server component and imported it in the page component
I did this for any other places in other pages as well.
I implemented react suspense. So in the initial load, page component has something to render.

This way I managed to reduce the page load time, which helped me to reduce the time between moving between pages.

So in summary my idea was to render what is available as soon as possible and render the components that are associated with API calls later. until they fetch the data, I showed a skeleton with the help of react suspense

**Mohammad yunus** · Answer 2

Mohammad yunus On 27 April 2022 at 06:16

to solve this issue followed the commands:

yarn build/nmp build
yarn start/npm start

I hope this will solve this issue

**tony** · Answer 3

Hey I think you are in your production mode. That's why it is slow. But if you will host your site it will be pretty much like react only. But then also if you want to routing fast Then npm i [email protected] --save will work fine..

**phunder** · Answer 4

Not sure if you have found a fix for this yet, but I came across this article about "shallow routing". I can't see much improvement in my application when using it, but maybe it will help someone else:

https://nextjs.org/docs/routing/shallow-routing

**agusterodin** · Answer 5

Development mode (next dev) is much slower because the routes aren't pre-built.

All delay related to routing assuming you don't have any server side blocking data requirements via getInitialProps, getServerSideProps, should not be present when running production mode with next build followed by next start.

**Cassio Seffrin** · Answer 6

I'm unable to access your cutt.ly examples, but I've encountered a similar issue when using router.push(/dashboard/some_path). The issue arises because every time you use router.push, it triggers getInitialProps for the page from scratch. This can be quite expensive in terms of performance, especially if you're doing heavy calculations in your React code. To mitigate this, you might want to consider expensive operations as much as possible. In my case, I replaced the following code:

import { useRouter } from "next/router";
const router = useRouter();
const mypath = `/dashboard/some_path`;
router.push(mypath);

With:

const urlOrPath = `/dashboard/some_path`;
window.location.href= urlOrPath;

The href property of the Location interface is a stringifier that returns a string containing the whole URL, and allows the href to be updated.

Or:

const urlOrPath = `/dashboard/some_path`;
window.history.pushState({ someData: 'your data' }, 'unusedStr', urlOrPath);

The history.pushState() method adds an entry to the browser's session history stack.

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