I have a blog page with around 800-1000 words and 2-3 images. I am storing these across different fields like subheadings, body etc.
These words might also have bb code on them so the total word count might be more than 1200.
Right now around 30-35k workload units are consumed in just loading the page per month. Is there a way to optimise these things further?
Hmm There are a bunch of things you can do. We would have to dig deeper into your app to really figure this out. Some things that i would check:
Do you have pagination on the repeating group of your blog? How many posts are you showing at one time?
Are the images optimized or are they very large?
Should you use a ‘satellite’ date source to display the data with the bare minimum in the repeating group before displaying the whole post?
That is where i would start. Again, without looking at your app, it is hard to diagnose the WU consumption specifically though. These are just guesses.
Considering even the most basic WU calculation for a page load is 0.15 WU, and do a search in it’s simplest form is 0.6WU, not to mention the amount of data returned, any constraints, etc, 1.75 WU per view is really not bad at all. Now there’s still probably ways to reduce this further, but I wanted to at least mention that your WU accrual isn’t bad considering the traffic.