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    • Importing from the Lite version
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    • Replacing the default theme search bar
    • Placing the search shortcode in theme files
    • Search as menu item
    • Custom result box position
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  • Search Sources
    • Search Engine
    • Post, Page, Product and other Post Type Search
    • Searching Titles, Content, Excerpt
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    • Search in Attachments
      • Mime types table
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      • User meta fields
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  • Behavior
    • Return/Enter key and Magnifier icon click actions
    • Search logic (primary and secondary)
      • Exact Matches vs Fuzzy Matches
      • Search logics explained
    • Live search triggering events
    • Results page override
    • Results, Archive Page and Shop Live Search and Filter
  • Elementor Integration
    • Elementor Pro Posts Widget Live Filter
    • Elementor Loop Grid Integration
    • Elementor Pro Product Widget Live Filter
    • Custom results page with Elementor Pro
    • Elementor custom search page archive override and live filter
  • Other Integration
    • Jet Engine Listing Grid Integration
  • Multisite Settings
  • Frontend Search Settings & Search Filters
    • Settings layout, position and visibility
    • Generic Selectors
    • Content Type filters
    • Date filters
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    • Search button
    • Reset button
  • Layout Settings
    • Result Layout Types
    • Results information box
    • Results position & snap
    • Content, author, date and description in results
    • More results loader and infinite scroll feature
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    • Results text keyword highlighter
    • Compact search box layout
    • Auto Populate - Automatic search results on initial page load
  • Autocomplete and Keyword suggestions
    • Autocomplete
    • Results and Keyword suggestions
    • "Try these" - suggested phrases
  • Theme Options - Visual changes to the search bar
    • Theme chooser
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    • Search box and input field layout
    • Settings and Magnifier icon
    • Settings dropdown
    • Typography
  • Index Table
    • Generating the index table
    • Enabling index table engine
    • File Content Search Addon
    • Index table FAQ
    • Synonyms
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  • Advanced Options and Uses
    • Using the Results shortcode as a custom results page
    • Shortcodes in results content
    • HTML tags in results
    • Primary and Secondary title and description fields
    • Advanced title and Content fields
      • User Search - Advanced Title and Content fields
    • Excluding & Including results
      • Exclude by category or terms
      • Exclude or Include by authors (users)
      • Exclude or Include by date
      • Exclude by Item or ID
      • Include by ID
      • Include by categories or terms (restrict to category)
      • Exclude or Include by custom field values
    • Grouping results
    • Keyword Exception & Exclusions
  • Result priority settings
    • Individual Priorities
    • Priorities by Rules (priority groups)
  • Performance Tuning
    • Fine tuning the search configuration
    • Cache
    • Visual performance
    • Ajax performance tracker
  • Compatibility Settings
    • Javascript Compatibility
  • Google Analytics Integration (GA4)
    • Tracking with Google Site Tag (gtag.js)
    • Tracking with Google Tag Manager
    • Site Search Tracking
  • Troubleshooting
    • Styling issues
    • The response data is missing from the ajax request error message
  • Translating components
    • Translating with WPML
    • Translating with Polylang
  • Pre-Purchase FAQ
  • Plugin API
    • Actions list and usage
    • Filters list and usage
    • asp_query_args filter
    • Theme functions
    • Front-end filters API
    • Javascript API
  • Other Useful Things
    • Additional search keywords for post types
    • Negative keywords
    • Meta box on post editor screen
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  • Server Speed
  • Database Size
  • Number (and quality) of plugins installed

Performance Tuning

PreviousPriorities by Rules (priority groups)NextFine tuning the search configuration

Last updated 7 years ago

The search speed is influenced by various factors. The most important are:

  • Server Speed

  • Database Size

  • Number and quality of plugins installed (very high factor)

Server Speed

Shared hosting packages - Shared hosting providers usually have a paralell process execution cap (10-20 processes). While a shared server is fast, paralell connections or paralelly running processes can lead to extreme slowdowns. In this case I highly recommend and the plugin functions.

VPS and Dedicated servers - The demo runs on a 10$/month Digital Ocean VPS with ubuntu LAMP stack installed. It's a 1GHZ single core, 1GB ram server - thus it's extremely cheap, and not that powerful. Yet the response times are extrelemly low. VPS is Highly recommended.

Database Size

An everyday blog user or shop owner does not exceed 5-10000 posts/products, which is absolutely fine. A few thousand records should not affect the search speed greatly.

Larger databases (10000 records and more) may require a better database environment. On shared hosts, you might experience issues with such number of posts (regardless of the search plugin). In this case you might want to consider switching to a basic VPS. It provides much better performance, yet it's still cheap.

Number (and quality) of plugins installed

This is influences the search plugin the most. Usually a high number of (any number of low quality) plugins will decrease the overall WordPress performance - thus increasing the response time of any request, as well as ajax requests.

In my personal experience the wordpress site perfromacne strongly drops when:

  • Using 15+ active plugins with similar performances

  • ..or using "large" plugins like WooCommerce, BuddyPress, BBPress, JetPack etc.. at the same time.

Using only the neccessary plugins makes your site faster and safer.

Running a might give you an insight on which plugins take the most resources during loading - but it might be different for ajax requests.

You can use the built in to compare the search function speed to the ajax response speed.

Fine tuning the search configuration
Disabling the search when typing
Autocomplete
performance profiler plugin
performance tracker