The database is the heart of a website and so ensuring its well being is extremely important. For the most part, the database of a site determines its speed and performance. Now you might be thinking, usually, the loading speed of websites depends on the media content it has, then what’s the role of databases in that? Well, the database of your WordPress website might contain unnecessary information that’s of no use and needs to be cleaned. So, when someone retrieves the information from your site, processing it takes too much time that contributes to slow page load. Take for instance spam comments, though you don’t require it to keep your site up and running it will take up space in your database and interfere with your site’s performance. In this blog, we will take a look at some of the best practices to maintain your WordPress database and the tools you can use to filter out the spam comments. Read more on https://bit.ly/2zOFX3v