Speed up your WordPress site with this MySQL optimization

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Published Feb 14, 2025

Optimizing MySQL on your WordPress site is an excellent way to make your website load faster. In this video, you will learn what MySQL DataBase is, how it works and what you can do to optimize it in your WordPress site.

MySQL is one of the most popular database platforms available and the one that WordPress has behind. It allows us to store blog posts, podcast episodes, products and orders all in one place, as well as allows us to easily retrieve that information.

But also MySQL dataBase, as any other database, can start delivering MySQL slow queries and slow your WordPress website speed. The more information you have on it, the more it can slow down queries to retrieve the information, as the indexes behind take memory and the bigger they get, the more memory they need to stay fast.

Nevertheless, there are ways you can speed things up again by optimizing your WordPress MySQL database. As a non-technical owner, the best option for you is to select a hosting provider that:

Has taken care of the MySQL optimization for you
Has Memcached set up, the most common key/value storage engine