Lot's of visual webparts

Question

My question is pretty straightforward: Is it OK to have a lot of webparts on a Sharepoint platform?

The thing is that we would like to make the development of our projects (different kind of projects on different sites) based on visual webpart templates. One service could be up to 10 webparts. We might have more than 100 webparts overall.

Does anyone had such experience? Will this affect on productivity? Would you suggest some other solution?

Answer 1

The maximum number of web parts per page is 50 by default. This can be extended by increasing the number of <WebPartLimits MaxZoneParts="50" PropertySize="1048576" /> in web.config-file.

For what comes to your question: It is OK.

The performance will definitely depend on your server's setup and the visualized content. The amount of data to be visualized and the time it takes to run each visualization obviously increase the page load time. Dividing the visual web parts to different pages according to their use cases/categories/x is therefore what I'd suggest. It becomes very complicated to predict the performance even if we know the "numbers" beforehand, as there are still other variables even harder to consider (other sites ran on the server, connection quality).