# Stop Yoast SEO Building Indexables on Small or Busy Sites

> Turns off Yoast SEO's indexables, the background tables Yoast fills for every post and term, which removes heavy database writes on large sites or cheap hosting.

- Type: PHP
- Runs: Run everywhere
- Category: [Performance](https://wpide.com/library/category/performance/)
- Tags: yoast, database, seo
- Author: WPIDE Team
- Installs: 0
- Updated: 2026-10-28
- Page: https://wpide.com/library/perf-yoast-no-indexables/

## Code

```php
add_filter( 'Yoast\WP\SEO\should_index_indexables', '__return_false' );
```

## Notes

Yoast features that depend on indexables (internal linking suggestions, some insights) stop working; SEO titles, meta and sitemaps keep working.

## How to use it

Install the free WPIDE plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpide/), find "Stop Yoast SEO Building Indexables on Small or Busy Sites" in its snippet library and add it in one click; or create a new PHP snippet in WPIDE (or any code snippets plugin) and paste the code above. More snippets: https://wpide.com/library/