We have gathered a list of great plugins which will do the job for you, leaving you with spare time to create new magical ideas. Don’t feel hesitant about how you can manage to prevent this from happening. According to studies, most visitors who come across your page will most certainly leave if the page takes longer than 2.4 seconds to load.Ī fast page is a happy page because it can rank higher on search engines. It can cause the page to load slower, which can affect its growth. Your WordPress database stores everything, including your blog posts, images, comments, themes, plugins, etc.…īy updating your site on a regular basis, your database grows larger, and it creates junk that occupies the memory leading to the main problem, which is performance issues. NOTE: This function is not included in a Clean All.Why is database optimization considered a necessity? When you take a look at the bigger picture, it actually makes perfect sense as to why it’s important. If you use the Minification and/or Combination functions for CSS and/or Javascript, you can clean up the related data with this button. NOTE: This function is not included in a Clean All. Use this button to optimize the database tables. Transients are caused by plugins, and are regenerated every time you reload a page. NOTE: It is normal for there to still be some transients left after cleaning. This option clears all of the transients in the database, whether expired or not. This option clears all of the expired transients from the database. Transients are the result of a form of caching that can happen in the WordPress database with the results of remote API calls. If displaying these external links is not important to you, press this button to clear them from the database. Some WordPress themes display these in the comments section. When other blogs link to you, it can create trackbacks or pingbacks. This option permanently deletes any comments that have been placed in the Trash. There should be no need to keep comments that have been marked as spam. This option permanently deletes any posts or pages that have been placed in the Trash. If you know that all of your posts are either published or saved correctly as drafts, then it is safe to remove the automatic drafts. This is to protect you in case you unexpectedly lose your connection, or your computer crashes. When you edit a post, WordPress automatically saves drafts now and then.
Only the currently-published version of each post will be saved. You will sacrifice your ability to go into any of your post and restore previous versions of them.
Removes all old post revisions from the database. It executes all of the listed clean-ups, except for Optimize Tables and Clean CSS/JS Optimizer. Press this button to clean up everything at once. If you see a red cross, that is your opportunity to do some optimization.
The check-marks indicate that the area has already been cleaned-up. You'll notice that some of the buttons have blue check-marks while others have red crosses.Access the database optimiser by selecting LiteSpeed Cache > Manage from the left hand menu.Please ensure you take a backup of your site prior to running any database optimisation - whilst it should be fine, bad things can happen if your sites database breaks - and it's always best to have a backup you know you can restore from.The easiest way to do that is by using the LiteSpeed Database Optimiser - part of the LiteSpeed cache plugin that we strongly recommend running on any WordPress site you host on our LiteSpeed servers. All of this extra weight in the database can slow your site, so it's a good idea to give it a regular clean. As your site grows, you add posts and pages, users accounts - your WordPress database will also grow - containing previous versions of posts and pages as well as other 'transient' data.