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raverbashing on May 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster

Depends on the WP plugins, I suppose (and Indexes created, and MySQL tuning, etc)

mrsaint on May 5, 2014 [–]

And themes. It's not unusual to see themes that cause 100+ database queries. Per pageview.

trebor on May 5, 2014 | [–]

Lots of these themes include 3 menus. And Wordpress menus are notoriously query heavy. That's why a lot of sites have caching—not because the page is large, but because the menus take so long to load.

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