Large Network Requests in the Editor?

[ggedde]

When Editing a page I notice there can be 200+ network requests for various js and css files.

• Is this Normal?
• Is this Expected?
• Are there plans to reduce these?

My initial thoughts were that it is not a big deal as it happens in the background, so the user doesn't see it and most are all cached.
However, I have been dealing with issues with Hosting lately because of this.

First, many hosting providers are getting more advanced with their Rate Limiting, which has been causing issues when refreshing an Admin page (Like you update code on a Block and want to see the latest changes). So now I am having to make requests to the hosting provider to extend their rate limiting burst to like 400 which they are saying that is very odd for an application to have that many.

Secondly, it is just causing more slowness now as the amount of requests seem to be growing. I understand that this does help with separating blocks out to their own code fragments, but it seems like this is becoming another node_modules. I am getting more and more clients asking if I can speed up the initial load of the editor.

• Are there any solutions for this, like some cache plugin that groups all these assets into one (For these Admin Block Assets)?

When I first switched to using the block editor for my clients they are all like WOW, it loads so much faster and editing and making changes are much faster, but lately it is starting to get slow again. Yes, I have checked my Themes and Plugins. The issue just seems to happen when editing a page that has a good amount of blocks. like 8+. Which is not that many. I have clients using 20+ on a page so the answer can't just be reduce your blocks. There needs to be another solution.

Thoughts?