Websockets can cause issues especially if you're not closing sockets properly, or have too much activity on a small server etc... Livewire for instance accounts

Websockets can cause issues especially if you're not closing sockets properly, or have too much activity on a small server etc... Livewire for instance accounts for this by just polling every 2 seconds for changes, this is much more performant than keeping 10000 sockets open if people leave open the page/app but don't actually do anything... Straight long-polling should be avoided, but intermittent polling is a good solution for performance when you don't want to use all your socket bandwidth.