Works fine most of the time but eventually can get backed up and will become completely non-interactable until all icons for a page load which can take up to 5 minutes.  This seems to also lag the server.  It did this after I generated the entire catalog of items for the store so I don't know why loading would get so bad.  

Searching for keywords also seems to only work a third of the time.  It shoudl specify if nothing is available for a specific keyword and it would be nice to search the entire database for keywords instead of a specific item type.

Currently the database.json is only used for giving the random skin pack skins.  So when you are browsing categories the server is actually crawling the steam workshop website to gather the results.  It does cache the steam workshop pages, but only in memory (so if you restart the cache is gone).

So if your server has a slow connect to the steam website, or the steam website is being slow for whatever reason then the pages will lag (unless they are cached already).

I may update the plugin at some point to use the database.json for the categories and search too.

Merged post

Version 0.4.0 now completely uses the database file instead of crawling the website, so you should find it must faster.