How many MySQL queries should I limit myself to on a page? PHP / MySQL

Question

Okay, so I\'m sure plenty of you have built crazy database intensive pages...

I am building a page that I\'d like to pull all sorts of unrelated database informati

Answer 1

As many as needed, but not more.

Really: don't worry about optimization (right now). Build it first, measure performance second, and IFF there is a performance problem somewhere, then start with optimization.

Otherwise, you risk spending a lot of time on optimizing something that doesn't need optimization.