# Variable text slowing site down?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-text-slowing-site-down/223768>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 25, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-text-slowing-site-down/223768 "2007-04-25T17:16:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![elihorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/elihorn/32/2458_2.png) [@elihorn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/elihorn)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-text-slowing-site-down/223768/1 "2007-04-25T17:16:53Z")

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This isn’t an urgent question, just more of a discussion. I noticed that a site I was building was really lagging at points where text was being loaded. After a little trial and error, I realized that it was due to the fact that I had given the text fields a variable name. I removed the variable name from the text field and it worked fine . . .

What is the reasoning behind this? Luckily in this case I don’t need the variable defined, but there are cases where it would be needed, so why is it slowing everything down? Is it because I have multiple instances of the text field with the same variable name . . . or?