Server performance permalink

  • Hi, i have a blog site that has got 10 pages, 6 categories and around 1000 posts. For all these days we’ve been using %postname%, but because the blog is growing with variety of articles we were thinking to use /%category%/%postname%/ to also benefit with seo url friendly (breadcrumbs). Now the issue is that we read on internet that adding category would cause the website to have many queries and impact the performance. Is it true?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    It’s technically true, but your experience may vary.

    %postname% is 1 query, and %category% is another query, so you’ve doubled your queries.

    That sounds scary, and yes while technically that will make things slower, in my experience, only by a few imperceptible-to-the-average-visitor milliseconds.

    So, what you’re hearing is correct, but as long as you’re on a good hosting provider, no one will notice.

    If you notice an actually perceptible slow down, https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-sweep/ can help with cleaning up a few things and optimizing your database.

    Thread Starter salave

    (@salave)

    Thank you for the clarification. I’m going to stick with just one query, but I’m also curious about how these queries are measured. If there are alternative methods, I prefer not to use a plugin.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The best way to measure queries is to use https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/query-monitor/

    You don’t have to leave it active, just turn it on, visit the link, see how it performs, and turn it off.

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