Title: Server performance permalink
Last modified: August 8, 2023

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# Server performance permalink

 *  [salave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salave/)
 * (@salave)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-performance-permalink/)
 * Hi, i have a blog site that has got 10 pages, 6 categories and around 1000 posts.
   For all these days we’ve been using %postname%, but because the blog is growing
   with variety of articles we were thinking to use /%category%/%postname%/ to also
   benefit with seo url friendly (breadcrumbs). Now the issue is that we read on
   internet that adding category would cause the website to have many queries and
   impact the performance. Is it true?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-performance-permalink/#post-16956832)
 * It’s _technically_ true, but your experience may vary.
 * `%postname%` is 1 query, and `%category%` is another query, so you’ve doubled
   your queries.
 * That sounds scary, and yes while _technically_ that will make things slower, 
   in my experience, only by a few imperceptible-to-the-average-visitor milliseconds.
 * So, what you’re hearing is correct, but as long as you’re on a good hosting provider,
   no one will notice.
 * If you notice an actually perceptible slow down, [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/)
   can help with cleaning up a few things and optimizing your database.
 *  Thread Starter [salave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salave/)
 * (@salave)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-performance-permalink/#post-16956998)
 * Thank you for the clarification. I’m going to stick with just one query, but 
   I’m also curious about how these queries are measured. If there are alternative
   methods, I prefer not to use a plugin.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-performance-permalink/#post-16957109)
 * The best way to measure queries is to use [https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/)
 * You don’t have to leave it active, just turn it on, visit the link, see how it
   performs, and turn it off.

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-performance-permalink/#post-16957109)
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