Google Docs has a size limit for files. The average page of text contains about 3,000 characters. If you have a 100,000+ word document, you have vastly exceeded the limit of 1.02 million characters. That is why your document isn’t working properly .
Google itself is usually not very slow, but depending on what you mean by “slow” it can seem slower than an app running on your computer. Check and see how fast or slow Google Docs seems on another computer. What kind of laptop do you have? More memory and a faster processor will help it run the browser faster.
Depending on the service you have, you might need more speed from your provider or you might be accessing Docs during times when there is heavy traffic on your network. Our automated system analyzes replies to choose the one that’s most likely to answer the question.
Why does google docs lag?
Another reason why Google Docs may be running slow is that you might be heavily multitasking. Although this is not typically likely because when you are writing, you are most likely to be working on that only. However, there may be times when there are other applications running in the background and eating up precious CPU and RAM resources.
This of course begs the inquiry “Does Google Docs have lag on Chromebook?”
Sometimes the lag is several seconds. It doesn’t matter if the document is long or short. This isn’t happening on my Chromebook. When I access Google Docs via Firefox via the same PC, there is no lag.
What I did to immediately eliminate input lag is first uninstall grammarly and then turn off Smart Compose for Google Docs. To turn off Smart Compose, go into a google doc and then go to the “Tools” tab then click on “Preferences”, then turn off the toggle that says “Show Smart Compose suggestions”.
Is 15K words too big for a Google Docs file?
Note that 15K words isn’t an excessive size for a Docs file, so that shouldn’t be the problem. However, if the document is old or has had many changes to it (or contains many comments/suggested edits), that will add to the byte size (because all changes are stored in version history) and could slog things down.
In addition, the only way to break your current document into smaller files is to create several (at least four or more ) new documents and copy/paste portions of your oversized document into them and work with the smaller files from now on. Google Docs doesn’t store backups locally — it is strictly a web-based app.
Does the web browser you use affect input lag?
It really doesn’t matter what web browser you use, the input lag doesn’t change. I would suggest using Google Chrome though since you can edit google docs offline and have more features/extensions but that is an argument for another day. Our automated system analyzes replies to choose the one that’s most likely to answer the question.