Performance Issue: Full Cast Page Loads All Records at Once

Hello IMDb team,

I’d like to share a usability and performance suggestion regarding how cast and crew lists are currently loaded on title pages.

Right now, when opening the full cast section, the page attempts to load all entries at once. For larger productions, this results in noticeably slow loading times and can make the page feel unresponsive until the full dataset is fetched and rendered.

A similar issue occurs in search results where large result sets are loaded without incremental pagination or lazy loading.

This approach seems inefficient both from a performance standpoint and user experience perspective. A more scalable implementation would be:

• Paginated loading (e.g., 20–50 entries per page), or
• Infinite scroll with lazy loading, or
• Hybrid approach with initial subset + on-demand expansion

This would significantly reduce initial load time, improve perceived performance, and prevent UI blocking when accessing large cast lists.

Thanks for considering the suggestion.