WordPress radically cranked up how often it saves your post and page revisions as you create them. And they all pile up in your database.
The Revision Control plugin helps keep your database clean by limiting the number of revisions stored there. And that makes your site faster. See the configuration settings I use in this quick MaAnna Minute video.
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