Konstantin Kovshenin Profile picture
Ex-@Automattic, WordPress core contributor. Hosting, scaling, performance and security. Currently building @saildeploy / https://t.co/VLfgEkPxXP
Dec 3, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
I don't usually tweet about #SEO, but this is important. Is a static robots.txt file good for WordPress performance? Let's find out!

To display the default robots.txt, a fresh WordPress install will: 🧵 Run 15 SQL queries: load all options, can_compress_scripts, WPLANG, query last 10 posts, query the recent posts widget options, query terms, taxonomies, etc., for found posts, all post metadata for found posts, recent comments widget, recent entries widget and a few others. Image