Are you facing the slow loading issue with your WordPress website?
Just a little care makes a big difference and significantly improve the loading speed of your website. If you are using WordPress from a couple of months it is good cleaning up your WordPress database it boost loading of your site and decrease bounce rate. On the weekly basis clean up of your database reduce its sizes and makes it possible to load fast.
On this article, I am showing you how to Cleaning Up Your WordPress Database for Improved Performance.
As you know that, WordPress uses PHP and MYSQL. PHP is a programming language that shows the information stored in the WordPess database. Your MYSQL database contains the all important information like posts, comments, pages etc. You can clean up unnecessary things to WordPress database, it reduce its size and improved performance of your website.
How to Cleaning up Your WordPress Database?
First, create the complete backup of your site before doing anything. Changes made by it irreversible, even more it delete posts in the trash.
Now install the WP-Sweep plugin and activate it. After activation just go to the Tools » Sweep to clean your WordPress database. after analyzing your database, it shows report how clutter you can clean. It shows report in the differnt segment like posts, meta, comments and orphan data. You can clean up one by one or at once, just go the bottom of the report and press sweep all. This process takes time depends on the size of your database.
Why WP-Sweep is better then WP-Optimize?
Wp-Optimize is the great WordPress plugin and using by the One and half million people. So this question is may arise in your minds why I am writing about WP-Sweep.
Because is is well coded by a WordPress Developer Lester Chan.
The main feature of the WP-Sweep is that it uses the proper WordPress delete function instead of running direct delete MYSQL queries. Whereas on the other side, WP-Optimize plugin uses the direct delete MYSQL queries which can leave orphan data.
So, in our views WP-Sweep is well-coded plugin as compared to WP-Optimize.
What can WP-Sweep clean?
- Revisions
- Auto drafts
- Deleted comments
- Spammed comments
- Deleted comments
- Unapproved comments
- Orphaned post meta
- Orphaned comment meta
- Orphaned user meta
- Unused terms
- Duplicated post meta
- Duplicated user meta
- Duplicated comment meta
- Transient options
- oEmbed caches in post meta
- Optimizes database tables
At last, I hope WP-Sweep help you to cleaning up your WordPress database. One user tested that and reported it can reduce 23.5% database size. You may also like to check 7 common WordPress optimization mistakes you Must avoid. If you like then please subscribe our site to get all updates in your mailbox.
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