Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for reducing lag time for progressive consumption of data content. Techniques include receiving an indication of requested data, the indication comprising: a data chunk size, and a number of data chunks, accessing a data cache, and performing a fetching operation comprising at least one of: if the data cache is empty, obtaining a first portion of the requested data from a database, or if the data cache is not empty, determining whether at least the first portion of the requested data is available in the data cache. Further techniques include providing for consumption the first portion of the data, identifying that a threshold has been reached, receiving updated values for the data chunk size and the number of data chunks, performing the fetching operation again based on the updated values, and providing for consumption a second portion of the requested data.