I recently have had develped a wordpress site that containers 10s of 1000s of real estate listings which can be filtered by users re location, rent or buy, size and other parameters.
We are using kinsta hosting and we take advantage of a lot of tbeir analytics and services which we enable but we still have problems with page loading speed on the results page which can potentially load 500 to 1000 results. These results page contain a small pic on left, a description title of place, a few specs 3 lines deep and another clickable pic on the right of page which links to a full page with a pic slider and more detailed specs of just one listing (which loads quite fast)
I was once told by a dev, that once we scale we will need to either separate web layer from database or create a hybrid between wordpress and a standalone site if I want to load 100s of real estate listings in a second ot thereabouts.
Can anyone confirm through experience, that by doing this, it has made a significant diff re page load speed and what stack they use re the stand alone site side of things ?
Has choosing wordpress been a mistake for a site of this nature that needs to load 500-1000 listings at a time. Is it actually possible dong the above ?
PS – We use a CDN, we optimize images, we use server side caching of Kinsta, we tick off most boxes that the majority of speed blogs suggest re databse optimization and indexing. Our theme is a custom theme written by a dev with good php, js css and html skills.
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WordPress can almost always be optimized further.
Does it really need to load 1000s of listings on a page without pagination? I can’t imagine a user scrolling through that many results on page.
Use pagination or infinite loading. 1000 results per page will kill any site, no matter how it was built.