WooCommerce products
WooCommerce turns a WordPress site into a shop. Each product, with its price, pictures and description, is stored as content of its own kind, next to posts and pages. Published products are the ones visitors can see and buy.
Why it matters
Section titled “Why it matters”A single product page doesn’t get slower because the shop has more products. The pages that list products do: categories, filters, search and “related products” sort through all of them, and products carry many extra details, such as prices, stock and attributes, that the database has to look up. A large catalog also makes the database, backups and imports grow.
Shops have another side that has nothing to do with the count: the cart, the checkout and the customer account have to be built for each visitor and can’t come from a page cache.
What influences it
Section titled “What influences it”WordPress: Adding and removing products, and imports, which can add thousands at once. Products that are drafts, private or scheduled don’t count. Variations of a product, such as sizes or colors, are stored separately and aren’t part of the count.
In Permo
Section titled “In Permo”The Products card is in System info, tab Content, but only when WooCommerce is active. It shows the number of published products, with the note WooCommerce, published, and no line.
Permo counts once a day and when you select Count content again. The value gives context; Permo doesn’t rate it.