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Your WordPress Site Loads 70% Faster After Ditching 50MB of Database Junk

Caching plugins? Nice try. But if your WordPress database is stuffed with 50MB of autoloaded cruft, every page chokes before cache even warms up. Here's the real fix.

Bloated WordPress wp_options table with autoloaded data metrics on a dashboard

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Audit autoloaded wp_options—aim under 1MB or watch every load suffer 200ms hits. 𝕏
  • Purge transients and orphans with SQL or WP-CLI for instant 70% speed boosts. 𝕏
  • Schedule weekly/monthly maintenance; manual fixes reveal WP's architectural flaws plugins hide. 𝕏
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