Performance Issues with WP-Query and "acf-private"

• nicmare

• May 5, 2022 at 7:14 am

i have a website with round about 20.000 posts and A LOT of meta field values.
i use ACF on the homepage only. Not on any other page.
But in each wp_query there is additional code injected by acf:

how can i disable that behavior?

with acf enabled i get these “query monitor” results:

with acf disabled i have these results:

as you can see it highly affects my memory and cpu usage.

• nicmare

• May 5, 2022 at 7:36 am

i found out i can get rid of the post status if i simply add
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
to the query. but to be honest i am not sure if it influences the performance. what else can be done here?