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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7351906" data-attributes="member: 1">Everything adds a database query to the page. Viewcounts all add database queries, page display indicators add database queries, etc. The reason a site gets slow is often (and in our case usually) because of a large number of database queries on every page load. Every little thing you remove is one less database query, and they all add up. A streamlined site therefore moves faster.Since the streamlining last weekend, we've had a 40% speed increase. That's quite a bit; and it'll also benefit our Google rankings, as we were ranked as "very slow".</blockquote>