The admin interface that comes with Django is one of the great things about Django. It comes with a ton of features out of the box and has many open source packages that extend the base functionality even more. Well documented and works very well, the only pain point I’ve found when using the admin and its features is when I’ve had large tables containing millions of objects. In that case, searching, sorting, ordering, counting and other features cause the admin to load slowly and creates database pressure. At that point we need to optimize the admin and there are many small changes that you can do that will speed up your admin load times and reduce any additional database load. This blog post will describe approaches to the common performance problems I’ve experienced when having a large database.