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[quote author="alitech" date="1276710730"]
My site has a lot of content and a lot of pages but I dont consider the site to be heavyweight. What should be the number of requests for a site my size compared to a heavyweight site?[/quote]
I think you should be looking at something between 25-50 queries (which still is a lot imho) which you should be able to bring down to maybe 10 with proper caching. To give you an idea, a frontpage of one of our rather busy sites uses about 30-40 queries if it's uncached. With caching we bring it down to 0-10 queries. The only issue we have is that it's hard to cache queries for logged in users.
You should take a look at Phil's cache library. I think you should be able to remove at least half of the queries just using a basic caching mechanism...
