Hi Team, I’m using React InstantSearch with the Typesense adapter on a self-hosted Typesense setup, and I'm running into performance issues with the initial empty search (

q: "*"

) on page load. Even though I’m only fetching 20 results, the query takes over 8 seconds to respond. Here's the query: Search Payload:

{
  "collection": "DFXApp",
  "q": "*",
  "query_by": "system,ocr_data",
  "group_limit": "1",
  "exclude_fields": "embedding",
  "per_page": 20,
  "page": 1,
  "sort_by": "system.lf.file.properties.ModifiedDate:desc",
  "highlight_full_fields": "system,ocr_data",
  "facet_by": "system.lf.file.properties.CreatedBy,system.lf.file.properties.CreatedDate,system.lf.file.properties.Extension,system.lf.file.properties.ModifiedDate,system.lf.file.properties.template.template_fields.Client Id,system.lf.file.properties.template.template_fields.Client Name,system.lf.file.properties.template.template_name",
  "max_facet_values": 20
}

R*esponse:* {

"found": 441715,
  "out_of": 441716,
  "page": 1,
  "search_time_ms": 8800
}

How to reduce the response time to under 100ms (or as close as possible). Does anyone have tips on: • Optimizing performance for an empty search (

q: "*"

)? • Best practices for handling large document collections (440k+) with heavy faceting and sorting? Thanks in advance!