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Best practice Adobe Commerce number of categories limits

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Best practice Adobe Commerce number of categories limits

This article provides best practices for number of categories limit for Adobe Commerce on-premises and Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure.

Best practices

The maximum recommended number of categories varies depending on Adobe Commerce version:

  • Starting with Adobe Commerce 2.4.2, the maximum recommended number of categories is 6000.
  • For Adobe Commerce 2.3.x, and 2.4.0-2.4.1-p1, the maximum recommended number of categories is 3000.
NOTE

This article only addresses best practices for supported versions of Adobe Commerce on-premises and Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure.

The potential site impact of exceeding the limit is:

  • Tangible increase in response time on non-cached catalog pages
  • Long execution/timeouts during managing categories in the Admin Panel
  • Increase in size of corresponding DB tables
  • Growth of indexation time [category/product relation index]
  • Heavier operations on categories tree building, menu retrieval, and category rules management operations

Recommendations to reduce the number of categories are:

  • Managing unique product features through attributes and custom options
  • Removing inactive categories
  • Optimizing catalog depth

Refer to Adobe Commerce User Guide > Configuring Product Options.

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