Hey,

Are the claims a large part of the network traffic for items you are
processing?  Some client time might be saved by lazy loading the claim
objects from _content.  The claims data is even smaller when using raw
revisions instead of the API JSON.

Is the size of the serialization something that is causing problems?

Cheers

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