{"id":8275,"date":"2025-10-31T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:35:08","slug":"database-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/database-optimization","title":{"rendered":"Make your database think faster \u2013 not work harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you host a WordPress or any custom PHP site at Hostinger, <strong>speeding up its database now only takes a few clicks<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Our updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wordpress-ai-troubleshooter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI Troubleshooter<\/a> automatically optimizes databases to speed them up by <strong>3&ndash;5 times<\/strong>. The end result: PageSpeed score increases by <strong>20% for mobile<\/strong> and <strong>10% for desktop <\/strong>devices on average.&nbsp;<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-it-matters\">Why it matters<\/h3><p>A database stores all the site&rsquo;s information, like user accounts, posts, products, and orders. Optimization makes it cleaner and more organized. This means that when someone visits a website, the <strong>system can find and deliver information much faster<\/strong> &ndash; much like finding a specific book in a well-organized library, rather than in a messy one.<\/p><p>And even if a website itself loads quickly, certain features that rely heavily on database queries &ndash; like product searches, blog category filtering, or displaying user order history &ndash; can still be slow if the database isn&rsquo;t optimized. These small lags add up and <strong>can make the whole experience feel sluggish<\/strong>.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-it-works\">How it works<\/h3><p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/wordpress-database-optimization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">optimize the database manually<\/a>, but it takes time and requires some technical knowledge. With our <strong>AI Troubleshooter<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11316005-how-to-use-ai-website-optimizations-in-hostinger-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it only takes a few clicks<\/a> &ndash; no technical knowledge, no plugins or external tools, no hassle. Just open it from your <strong>hPanel<\/strong>, run a speed test, and let the tool handle the rest.&nbsp;<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Database optimization in AI Troubleshooter\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mC8kk1I0JxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>In the background, our <strong>AI analyzes your whole website<\/strong> and <strong>applies the best LiteSpeed optimization practices<\/strong>. It also looks for slow database queries and automatically <strong>indexes them to make future requests faster<\/strong>.<\/p><p>A <strong>full backup<\/strong> is automatically saved before making any changes, so you can easily restore it if needed. The best part? It&rsquo;s <strong>free<\/strong> for all web and cloud hosting clients.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-results\">The results<\/h3><p>We created the feature with <strong>WordPress<\/strong> clients in mind, but it works perfectly with any custom <strong>PHP<\/strong> website hosted with us, such as <strong>Laravel<\/strong>, <strong>PrestaShop<\/strong>, <strong>OpenCart<\/strong>, <strong>Joomla<\/strong>, and <strong>Drupal<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Hundreds of our early tests showed promising results. On average, database queries became <strong>3&ndash;5 times faster<\/strong>, with some cases seeing even greater gains. For example, one site&rsquo;s query time <strong>dropped from 35.4 seconds to 5.6 seconds<\/strong>, and another one improved <strong>from 9.3 seconds to just 1.5 seconds<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Try the updated <strong>AI Troubleshooter<\/strong> to see the difference in your website&rsquo;s speed and responsiveness.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/web-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Web-hosting_in-text-banner.png\/public\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Web-hosting_in-text-banner.png\/w=2048,fit=scale-down 2048w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Web-hosting_in-text-banner.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Web-hosting_in-text-banner.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Web-hosting_in-text-banner.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Web-hosting_in-text-banner.png\/w=1536,fit=scale-down 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you host a WordPress or any custom PHP site at Hostinger, speeding up its database now only takes a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Our updated AI Troubleshooter automatically optimizes databas\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":8277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-8275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-updates"],"hreflangs":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8279,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions\/8279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}