CMS / System Resource question?

[eluser]mddd[/eluser]
I agree, the number of calls by itself is not the best measurement. But they can be the source of problemens when the load on the site gets bigger. Once calls have to wait for each other to finish, you will see performance degredation. Of course, looking at slow queries will tell you when that happens.

If you want to optimize you can try to reduce the number of calls by writing smarter queries if possible, but also by caching. For instance, if menus or configurations only rarely change, you could store them in a file and only update that file when the information actually changes.