One way to decrease the load times for SharePoint is by using structured navigation in a publishing site collection. There are several benefits of structured navigation: it is security trimmed; automatically updates when new sites are added; and does not require customization of the master page. This video walks through the steps to use structured navigation to improve page load performance.

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