I’ve been facing an issue where my Webflow site hasn’t published successfully for the past 20 days.
I reached out to Webflow support, and they mentioned that my site is quite large (12–14 GB), suggesting the issue may be related to my local network or browser environment. I’ve tried multiple browsers, faster internet connections, and even reduced the size of some assets — but nothing has worked so far.
Has anyone else experienced something similar with large sites or long publish delays? Would really appreciate any tips, solutions, or workarounds that helped in your case.
Also, someone recently suggested that I switch to the Client-First naming approach for CSS classes.
Can switching to Client-First really help reduce the size or improve publishing performance of a large Webflow site like mine?
No. Client first is not about efficiency- it’s about understandability and maintainability. In general you may even end up with more DIVs and classes.
Since you’ve already made contact with support, that’s where your solution lies. It’s up to them to figure out what’s causing the problem.
However in parallel you might try to clean your site up and trim down those large assets- which basically means optimizing your site. Possibly off-hosting anything exceptionally large such as PDFs or Videos.
Did you manage to sort this out? It does sound like your somehow huge site played a part, why is it so huge? Do consider hosting your media files like videos and PDF else where. There are free and paid services that you can host your files privately like Wistia for videos, Titlegram for PDF. If these are overkill for your use case, there is always still Google Drive / Dropbox, although I suspect you would likely have exceeded Dropbox’s free plan.