Benchmark guides for WordPress & WooCommerce

The default search that comes with your WordPress theme searches for the content in the POST MySQL database directly. It is rather slow depending on the amount of content present on the site and can be very imprecise. That’s why most big sites have an advanced search engine like Apache Solr and ElasticSearch installed in an SQL database and API’s that can make use of them. What are the different API’s that can serve as a substitute to the default search? WPSolr WPSolr is a site search API developed for WordPress that can function with either Apache Solr or ElasticSearch. It is very inexpensive but does not include hosting of the Search platform. The user has to either locally host it himself or pay to

The problem DIVI is one of the themes for which we have built a demo to showcase our WooCommerce search plugin. But DIVI is also the only theme, or page builder, that failed to load fast on a 100K WooCommerce products shop.   The detection All our other demos, in the exact same conditions (Cloudways, 100K products), are loading fast. But with DIVI, it is quite another story: 15 seconds to load the Shop page! We decided to investigate by activating the Query monitor plugin. Below are the screen captures that led us to find the culprit. a) 15 seconds (just in PHP, this does not include front-end load times, like images, css and js files)   b) 0,5 second with Flatsome (same demo, but

Spoiler: WPSOLR powers real 500K products WooCommerce sites ! You can find some WooCommerce sites equipped with our Elasticsearch or Solr plugin, raging from 100,000 to 500,000 products. Surprisingly, on rather modest WordPress hosting plans. 500K products for OEM+ Performance – WooCommerce Tuning Parts: https://www.oemperformance.com/home/?s=&post_type=product 400K products for Bladmuziek PLUS – WooCommerce Music Sheets: https://www.bladmuziekplus.nl/   The 1 million products WooCommerce There is a lot of interest for a 1 million products real-life WooCommerce. Just search on Google. But strangely, there are no definitive answer. And even less answers on how much WooCommerce can take. Before to start, we should notice that in most (almost?) answers from the community, some topics are never mentioned: – Hard limits – Soft limits, especially search – Cost of