WooCommerce optimization, from the checkout back to the database
WooCommerce fails differently from WordPress. Sessions, HPOS tables, facet crawls and cart fragments each have their own failure mode, and each one reads to the owner as the same symptom: the store is slow.
What the work is
Four things, each of which produces a number you can check on your own site afterwards.
Session and cart table health
A 329 MB session table sounds like traffic. It was crawlers hitting add-to-cart, 99.99% of it.
HPOS verification
A populated orders table proves nothing. We check the newest row date — a stale one hides weeks of orders.
Facet and filter crawl control
Filter crawls starve PHP workers. The guard must deny, not redirect — a 302 turns each blocked hit into a second request.
Catalogue SEO pass
Meta coverage, breadcrumb schema, category tree repair driven by Search Console clicks. On one store, zero of 261 category pages had a description.
Zero of 261 category pages had a meta description
The site had run an SEO plugin for years. None of this is visible in a plugin dashboard, which is why it survived.
WooCommerce catalogue · 2,297 products · 261 category and brand pages
Read the full case study| Measurement | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| No meta description | 85 pages | 0 pages | -100% |
| No breadcrumb schema | 183 pages | 2 pages | -99% |
| Categories | 99 terms | 68 terms | -31% |
Five jobs. Every month. Each one counted.
Retainers bundle all five. Any one of them can also be bought once, as a single measured pass with a before column and an after column.
Plans priced on the work,
not on the checklist
Month to month, no lock-in. Prices are per site, per month, exclusive of GST. Portfolios and multi-site estates are quoted on the estate.
For a site that just needs to stay up, patched and backed up
For a store where slow pages are costing orders
Running a portfolio you cannot afford to have go quiet? Managed starts from ₹17,999/mo.
The questions
everyone asks first
Straight answers, including the ones about price, access and what we will not do.
Updates, backups, uptime and security are the floor — every plan has those. What separates a retainer from a host's support desk is the measured work underneath: autoload and database health, object cache sizing, bot policy, disk audits, and a quarterly report with a before-and-after column. Your host will never do any of that, because none of it is their responsibility.