WordPress generates an awful lot of sql queries.
We used ‘WP Fastest Cache’ which creates static html pages from your platform and caches them. Howevr for logged in users, the static pages wont work.
Here is what I am seeing. 122 queries, 7.8s spent in db time! Moreover as you can see all the queries are pretty fast (~0.05s). Hence caching the queries is not going to help
I am using bluehost to deploy and mysql db.
Whats the best way to optimize this. Is there a way to run all queries in parallel on mysql or some other elegant solution?
I am thinking of building this on heroku using rails, but we dont have enough time currently so we have to figure out a way to optimize the db.
Those queries aren’t so fast.
0.1s
for a simple lookup on the options table is very slow.All of the queries in the image you posted are on the options table. I’m not sure if most of your queries are option queries or not, but if you want to reduce the total number of option queries, you can use the
autoload
parameter onupdate_option
oradd_option
. From the documentation:If you autoload your options they will all be fetched in a single query. This will reduce the total number of queries, but as a mentioned before, your queries shouldn’t be taking that long to begin with.
For existing options, you will have to delete them first and then re-add them using the
autoload
parameter:By default, when you create options they are set to autoload so it is a bit odd that you have so many options that aren’t autoloading.