Should I clean up past events – to improve speed?

[Emily Holton]

Hi! I recently extended many of my recurring events to go several months into the future. Afterwards, I noticed that my calendar was running slower. I don’t want to scale back the recurrences in the future, but I could go in and delete some past events. Do you anticipate that cleaning up some of the past events would improve site speed?

Thanks!

[Nico]

Hi there @wheretogokiddo,

Thanks for getting in touch with us! Interesting question, I’m mostly sure that won’t create a huge impact on the calendar performance but the only way to really confirm this is to give it an actual try. If you have a staging site you can import a copy of the live database and perform some test deleting past events and measuring load times. Does this makes sense?

You might also take a look at other ways of improving the site performance: The Events Calendar Performance considerations.

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with,
Best,
Nico

[Emily Holton]

OK will do – thanks so much!

[Nico]

You are welcome 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close out this thread, but if you need help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create a new one and we will be happy to assist you.

Best,
Nico

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