Title: Being slow
Last modified: October 24, 2017

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# Being slow

 *  [net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krstarica/)
 * (@krstarica)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/being-slow/)
 * This is great plugin, but it is being extremely slow with 100K posts.
 * Can you speed it up? Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/being-slow/#post-9615597)
 * Hi, as the sitemaps are generated on the fly, a huge site will indeed make it
   too slow. This is a problem for search engines so you need to address this.
 * There is an option in the Sitemap settings called “Split by”. Set this to “Month”
   if you have not done that already.
 * This should cut your sitemaps up in smaller ones, at least if your posts are 
   not posted all in the same month…
 * If that does not help, you can try adding an object caching plugin to your site.
   If your host allows that, it should speed up things for your complete site as
   well as the sitemap plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krstarica/)
 * (@krstarica)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/being-slow/#post-9616169)
 * Thanks for for your prompt reply.
 * I am using split by month, but it is still unacceptable slow.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)
   is much faster on the same site, so there’s gotta be a room for SQL or similar
   improvement.
 * Also there is no reason for sitemap-news.xml being slow, too. It displays 200
   articles in the last 48 hours only. It should be prompt.
 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/being-slow/#post-9616320)
 * Indeed, 200 articles should not be slow. Can you share a link?

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 * Last reply from: [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/being-slow/#post-9616320)
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