Time to revisit the different types of Drupal sites to see where gains can be made. What type of site do you have? This quick reference recaps the previous articles and lists the areas where different types of Drupal sites can improve performance.
The time for a page to render in a user’s browser is comprised of two factors. The first is the time it takes to build a page on the server. The second is the time it takes to send and render the page with all the contained components. This guide has mainly been concerned with [...]
Benchmarking a system is a reliable way to compare one setup with another and is particularly helpful when comparing different server configurations. We cover a few simple ways to benchmark a Drupal website.
There are a couple of projects which have made it easy to achieve performance gains by making slight amendments to core or packaging up the code in a helpful manner. Pressflow makes it possible to use a reverse proxy such as Varnish, amongst other things. Mercury packages Pressflow up as a Amazon EC2 image. The [...]
Several advanced options exist to take caching to the next level in Drupal. With advanced caching Drupal is able to scale to levels required by the most demanding of sites.
Sometimes your installation will be slow for no apparent reason. Time to grab your toolkit and get started on finding and eliminating the problem. Here are some of the common problems faced by developers.
Bad performance can be down to decisions you have made during development because you haven’t been aware of natural limitations of the system or the way Drupal works. The more you poke about the more you will understand. Here’s a grab bag of things which may bite you.
Getting the most from your Drupal site means getting the most from your server – optimizing the various layers of the the LAMP stack. This includes the filesystem, database, web server, PHP, RAM and CPU. Tuning the LAMP stack is a major subject requiring a lot of study and practice to become proficient. It’s something [...]
Drupal has a number of features which allow for performance to be improved without the addition of external modules or for complicated configuration by administrators. A slow system can easily be turned into one which performs well under heavy loads.
Uriverse publishes DBpedia in Drupal: A case study
Uriverse, a Drupal based website, was released in January 2010. Much of the data in Uriverse is based upon a data import from DBpedia, a semantic version of Wikipedia. Uriverse contains over 13M nodes and contains 90 languages covering around 3M primary subjects. This article is a case study of how the import was done [...]