Rank Math generate too much requests

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with Rank Math generating too many requests. This can often be related to the IndexNow API, which has a quota of 10,000 URLs per HTTP POST request. If this quota is exceeded, it can lead to slow requests and a 429 response code, indicating "Too Many Requests."

To address this issue, you can stop submitting your URLs to the IndexNow API for a while and disable the automatic submission feature in Rank Math. Here’s how you can do that:

1. Navigate to Rank Math SEO → Instant Indexing → Settings from your WordPress dashboard.
2. In the Auto-Submit Post Types setting, click the Select / Deselect All button until the Posts, Media, and Pages options are unchecked.

By doing this, you should be able to reduce the number of requests being sent. If you continue to experience issues, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.

Thank you for raising this concern!

Sources:
How to Fix 429 Error with IndexNow API » Rank Math

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to this issue.

We want to help you fix this issue as soon as possible. Please follow these steps:

• First, please install the Query Monitor plugin on your website. This plugin will help us identify any queries related to Rank Math that might be slowing down your dashboard. Once you install it, please go to your dashboard and look for the Query Monitor icon on the top bar. Click on it and take a screenshot for us. You can use this tool to upload the screenshot and share the link with us.
• Second, please check the PHP values of your site by going to WordPress dashboard > Tools > Site Health > Info tab > Server. These values affect the performance of your site and they should be set atleast to the following recommendations:

  PHP Memory Limit: 512M
  Max input time: 150
  PHP time limit: 120
  PHP max input variables: 1000

  If any of these values are lower than the recommended ones, please contact your hosting provider and ask them to increase them for you.

• Third, please go to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Analytics and reduce the number of days in the Analytics Database section. This will help you optimize the database size and speed up the loading time. You can choose to store 30 or 60 days of analytics data depending on your preference.

  After you change the number of days, please save the settings and then click on the Delete Data button and then Update Data Manually. This will delete the old data and fetch the new data based on your settings.

You can also check this article for more information on how Rank Math affects your site speed: https://rankmath.com/kb/does-installing-rank-math-slow-down-my-website/

We hope this helps you resolve the issue. If you have any other questions or need more assistance, please let us know. We’re always happy to help.

Thanks.