Extreme Clean

Enhance your website's performance by conducting thorough cleanups with Extreme Clean. Extreme Clean targets obsolete data and files accumulated over time due to site development, editing and general usage, ensuring your site remains lean, clean, and fast.

Key Benefits

• Improved Site Speed: By removing old page versions, file versions, and other unused data, Extreme Clean helps in speeding up your website's load times.
• Reduced Backup Size: Cleans your site's database to reduce backup size, making the backup process quicker and more efficient.
• GDPR Compliance Assistance: Aids in the strategy for GDPR compliance by removing old data that could contain personal information.
• Pre-production Cleanup: Ideal for preparing a site for production by eliminating development remnants of test data and old versions.
• Enhanced Security: Strengthens site security by removing potentially risky outdated content and user accounts.

Features

• Comprehensive Site Scouring: Targets various areas for cleanup, including old page and file versions, drafts, trash, long log files, abandoned user accounts, fragmented databases, old /incoming and /tmp files, and more.
• Database Optimization: Optimizes database tables for efficient access and storage, and updates database character sets and collation for older sites with updated cores.
• Clutter Management: Addresses cluttered clipboards, unused blocks and templates, and broken workflows, enhancing site functionality and admin user experience.
• Flexible Operation: Cleaners can be run directly from the dashboard or via the queuable job in Concrete CMS, with specific adjustments available for Concrete CMS v9 through the Extreme Clean task.
• GDPR Strategy Support: Helps ensure no GDPR-covered data is left in old page versions, log records, or inactive user accounts, contributing to your site's compliance efforts.

Strategy and Caution

Before using Extreme Clean, it's crucial to backup your site to avoid unintended data loss. Once configured, a safe strategy is to run Extreme Clean after regular backups, maintaining a clean database for future backups. Although Extreme Clean aids in GDPR compliance and site security, it's part of a broader strategy and should be used thoughtfully.