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Hello,
The Rank Math SEO Pro plugin has created an “autoloaded” option called “rank-math-options-titles” in the wp_options table, and its size is 1.5 MB in total. See the attached txt file, please. WordPress shows a warning on the site health menu and wants us to reduce the autoloaded size to improve performance. What do you recommend to fix this?
Thanks!
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Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with the autoloaded option "rank-math-options-titles" in the wp_options table. This can indeed affect your site’s performance if the autoloaded data is too large.
To address this, you can consider the following steps:
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Optimize Autoloaded Options: You can manually reduce the size of the autoloaded options by removing unnecessary data or optimizing the stored values. However, be cautious when doing this to avoid losing important settings.
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Disable Unused Features: If there are features in Rank Math that you are not using, consider disabling them. This may help reduce the amount of data stored in the options table.
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Use a Database Optimization Plugin: Consider using a database optimization plugin that can help clean up and optimize your database, including reducing the size of autoloaded options.
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Contact Support for Assistance: If you’re unsure about making changes or if the issue persists, we recommend replying to this ticket. A human agent from our support team will be able to assist you further and provide specific guidance based on your setup.
If you could provide your site URL in your reply, it would help us understand your situation better.
Thank you for raising this concern! We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve it.
see issue also adressed here:
https://github.com/rankmath/seo-by-rank-math/issues/312I just reduced the options in the panel to the most neccessary and reduced redirections from 48 down to 8 aswell – the load is now gone from 1.5 mb to 1.58 mb… there is something weird happening… please assist. thanks!
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.
The meta key rank-math-options-titles holds the default post/page title configured at Rank Math SEO > Titles & Meta > Posts (or other post type) and taxonomies.
The size of our options is not so big that it could cause any performance issues by being autoloaded, and most of the option names here are crucial for all of Rank Math’s functionality to work properly.
You can change the autoload option, but the default behavior will return to your website as soon as that option is regenerated.
Looking forward to helping you.
The database option rank-math-options-titles has autoload = yes and currently takes up 1.69 MB, increasing by approximately +100 KB daily. This behavior is highly unusual and may be indicative of a loop or duplication issue.
Upon inspecting the serialized data, it becomes evident that this is not just about title options. The row contains over 79,000 repeated noindex entries (see key: pt_yaymail_template_robots). These values appear to be appended continually without cleanup, despite the fact that the website has far fewer than 70,000 posts, pages, or products.
For example, within the serialized data you’ll find this:
> “pt_yaymail_template_robots”;a:79744:{i:0;s:7:”noindex”;i:1;s:7:”noindex”;i:2;s:7:”noindex”;i:3;s:7:”noindex”;…}
This key alone includes 79,744 instances of the string “noindex” — and the number keeps growing.
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Request:
Please investigate the source of this issue.
Check if Rank Math or a third-party integration (possibly YayMail or others) is incorrectly writing to this row.
Suggest or implement a cleanup routine or patch to stop the excessive growth and remove redundant entries.
Let me know if you need full access to the serialized export; I can provide it directly.I am just unable to attach any file hete.
Thanks a lot!
PedroHello,
We recommend temporarily disabling YayMail and any related integrations (you can do this on a staging site), then monitoring whether the size continues to grow. If confirmed, the source plugin will need to stop writing duplicate entries. In the meantime, you can manually clean the redundant data from the database, but it may return unless the root cause is addressed.
You can share the full serialized export privately via our support form, and we can investigate further.
Also, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
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