Wordpress Permalinks Question...

[Gerry]

In regards to permalinks, it is better to indicate

/%postname%


or...



/%postname%.html

 

[dcristo]

It really doesn't make a difference, and if it does, the difference is so small that its negligible. The important thing is changing the link structure so that the keywords are in the URL.

 

[antelope]

Wordpress recommend that you use a structure like this for performance:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

I'm not fully versed with the in's and out's but apparently when you have a high traffic website, generating the re-written links places a load on the servers and apparently by putting the month and year in the link it reduces the load. I have no idea how this affects the server load but you can read more about it on the Wordpress codex

codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks