Power BI file takes long time to load/refresh

Hi, my company is currently using a file that is loading more than 20 Excel files in for our Power BI and was wondering if there are any methods to streamline the loading as the file takes a couple of minutes to load and around 20 minutes to refresh, appreciate if you have any tips to share, thanks.

@willis.lim ,

Welcome to the forum - great to have you here!

I am just starting to delve into the topic of optimizing Power Query, but here are some suggestions/resources I’ve been reviewing that may be helpful:

I am also learning how to use the PQ performance diagnostics. Here are a few videos I’ve found helpful on that topic:

There are folks here who know far more about this topic than I do and I’m hoping they’ll chime in, but hopefully this gives you a useful place to start.

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