Title: Query Call
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Query Call

 *  [Stuart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuart/)
 * (@stuart)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/)
 * Can someone tell me exactly what that “num_queries” call is contained in the “
   WordPress” credit paragraph at the bottom of the index.php page please?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/#post-60212)
 * It’s how long the program took to query the database to build the page.
    I think
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Stuart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuart/)
 * (@stuart)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/#post-60213)
 * No. That’s the “time” call. This one returns the number of queries and I’m wondering
   exactly what’s meant by queries.
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/#post-60215)
 * The number of database queries executed to fetch information from the database.
 *  Thread Starter [Stuart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuart/)
 * (@stuart)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/#post-60216)
 * Oh right. Thanks skippy. Just wondering if it was something I could use elsewhere.
 *  [miahz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miahz/)
 * (@miahz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/#post-60715)
 * is there a good or recommended number of queries per page to shoot for? i’m sure
   too many too often would probably be hard on the server, but how much is that?
   
   i ask because i added prev/next post links before and after posts on single post
   pages like on Photo Matt’s and many others’ sites. (i grabbed the code from [Matt’s index.php page in the wiki](http://wiki.wordpress.org/PhotoMatt/index.php),
   and it uses the previous_post and next_post tags.) i noticed that added 4 more
   queries for each set, for a total of 8 more, going from 19 to 27 on post pages.
   is that “safe” – nothing to worry about? and my template is still pretty basic
   at this point, there’ll probably be more features and functions in the future.
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/#post-60716)
 * I had mine up to 70 and was going for 100, but unfortunately it fell to 60. I’ll
   have to snag a few more “useless” hacks/plugins, I guess 😉
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/#post-60718)
 * Depends on your website performance. Every hosting provider has things set up
   slightly differently. Mine has a different server running the MySQL instance 
   than the apache/php box — so each query has to go out over the internal network
   to get processed. At home, everything is on one machine, so it goes through a
   null-pipe to talk to the SQL service.
    My belief is that around two dozen is 
   pretty good if you are running a few useful plugins. Beel is going to be my ‘
   test optimization’ case over time, to see if I can help him come down a bit more(
   though I >was< part of the problem at one point!). Caching is key, as is not 
   doing queries you don’t really have to, and requesting all the data you can rather
   than a secondary query later. Of course, there’s the inevitable tradeoff of asking
   for too much data, which takes longer to process and send back on the wire, versus
   asking for minimal data and thus needing a second/followup query to fill in the
   blanks. At the end of the day, if your page loads fast enough for you, and your
   hosting provider isn’t bitching about you taking a hit on their SQL server, you’re
   okay with a few dozen certainly, more in certain circumstances (i.e., I have 
   administrative scripts which run hundreds of queries on a given page…). -d [CHAITGEAR](http://www.chait.net)
 *  [miahz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miahz/)
 * (@miahz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-call/#post-60724)
 * thanks for the info, davidchaitt. i’m not too worried about it, especially since
   my site has essentially no traffic, but it’s good to know. i’ve also been eying
   the Staticize caching plugin, which would help lighten the load – if there were
   a load to lighten.

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