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title: Large Page Data
---

## Why This Error Occurred

One of your pages includes a large amount of page data (> 128 kB). This warning only affects the Pages Router, where Next.js serializes page data as `__NEXT_DATA__` JSON, which the client must parse before hydrating the page. The App Router streams data via Server Components and is not affected.

Large page data impacts performance in several ways:

- **Increased page weight:** The serialized data is inlined in every HTML response, increasing the document size and slowing down the initial page load on slow networks.
- **Slower hydration:** React cannot hydrate (make the page interactive) until the `__NEXT_DATA__` JSON has been parsed. Large payloads delay the [Time to Interactive (TTI)](https://web.dev/articles/tti).
- **Higher memory usage:** The entire data payload is held in memory on the client, even if only part of it is used for rendering.

## Possible Ways to Fix It

Return only the data your page needs to render from `getStaticProps`, `getServerSideProps`, or `getInitialProps`:

- **Filter and trim data:** Only return the fields your components use. Avoid passing entire database records or API responses when only a subset of fields is needed.
- **Paginate large lists:** Instead of returning hundreds of items at once, return a smaller initial set and fetch additional items on the client using API routes.
- **Move data fetching to the client:** For non-critical content or content not visible on initial load, fetch it on the client side after hydration using `useEffect` or a data fetching library like [SWR](https://swr.vercel.app/) or [React Query](https://tanstack.com/query).

### Inspect your page data

To inspect the data your page receives, open your browser DevTools console and run:

```bash filename="Browser Console"
JSON.parse(document.getElementById("__NEXT_DATA__").textContent)
```

Use this to inspect the full payload and identify which fields are adding to the size.

### Configure the threshold

The default threshold of 128 kB is controlled by the `largePageDataBytes` option in `next.config.js`:

```js filename="next.config.js"
module.exports = {
  experimental: {
    largePageDataBytes: 200 * 1000, // Set threshold to 200 kB
  },
}
```

Before increasing this threshold, evaluate the performance implications to confirm the trade-off is acceptable for your use case.

## Useful Links

- [Pages Router Data Fetching](/docs/pages/building-your-application/data-fetching)
- [SWR - React Hooks for Data Fetching](https://swr.vercel.app/)
- [Time to Interactive (TTI)](https://web.dev/articles/tti)
