Performance of my permalink structure?

I have read the discussion on the performance of different permalinks on the wp hackers mailinglist, THIS forum and around Google.

I could however not really deduce if the permalink structure I have been using for the past years is good or not:

/%postname%-%year%%monthnum%%day%.html

This combination put the postname directly after the / and the year,month,day combination makes it more unique since many postnames carry the same name. The html addition is something I have been using for the past 10 years on my blog (even pre wordpress) so that is legacy.

I dont know if this is good for permance or bad for performance, how can i check this?

(I have been running the blog for +10 years and there are about 10.000 posts with many links in)

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Method 1

You can check by looking at the size of the rewrite_rules option in the database. If it’s small (which I believe it should with this structure), you’re not using verbose rules. By contrast, if you see several lines per static page, you’re using verbose rules and it’s not good.

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I veto the accepted answer. The complexity of the rewrite rules is in no way a measure for the performance of article lookup.

In particular, it seems that starting your permalinks with post names is bad; see http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags

Without having looked into WordPress code, I can imagine that they somehow index posts hierarchically. Therefore, the variables used in permalinks should be ordered from left to right from the most general to the most post specific variable used. This heuristic strongly favors the standards year/month/name or category/name.

Method 3

Just for the workflow QA:

The answer is: NO this is not a good permalink structure concerning performance.

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