Quantity of Pages

  • I recently inherited a WP site and it runs VERY slowly, sometimes as much as 30 seconds between pages. I noticed that we have 160 published pages (although many of them are not found in our navigation, so I am pretty sure no one sees them) and 8 private pages. Obviously, all of these pages are unnecessary. So my questions are:

    1. is this affecting our site’s loading speed?
    2. if I do a back-up and then delete all of these pages, can I ever resurrect them from the back-up – just certain pages, not the whole site?

    THANK YOU!!!!!

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  • I would say that it is not adversely affecting yuor page speed having that many pages. I’ve run sites with hundreds of pages, that run just as quickly as other sites with far less pages.

    I would recommend running your site through https://www.pagespeedtest.com , and taking their advice for how you can speed up your site.

    Off the top of my head a few are:
    Serve static content through a CDN
    Optimize+Compress Images (and set them to progressive jpg)
    Concatenate and compress all JS and CSS into as few files as possible
    Avoid heavy, and taxing, database queries (if you must use them, set up transients)

    There’s plenty more…but that’s just a rough jumping point.

    Evan

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