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Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By : T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James
Book Image

Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By: T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most respected and widely used open source content management frameworks.&nbsp; Small, medium, and large-scale websites are built using Drupal and the framework supports ecommerce, CRM, multisite and web service integrations.&nbsp; <br /><br />Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run.&nbsp; This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.<br /><br />We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching. <br />&nbsp;<br />Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.<br /><br />Finally, we&rsquo;ll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.<br /><br />This book is designed for Drupal developers and webmasters who want to increase their Drupal site&rsquo;s speed and performance.&nbsp; You will take your Drupal site to the next level by not only displaying relevant and newsworthy content, but also running a powerful and high-speed website.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 6 Performance Tips
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 3. Using Development Modules and Tools

In this chapter, we're going to use the Devel module to monitor performance on our Drupal site to assist us in locating bottlenecks. The Devel module can be used to quickly gather detailed information on your site's theme elements, monitor your site's page loads and database queries, generate test content for your site, and give you easy methods for clearing your site's theme registry and performance cache. It's an essential tool for the performance-minded Drupal developer. We're also going to look more closely at how your site logs access entries and how you can view your log entries to troubleshoot performance issues.

Our focus in this chapter will be on using the Devel module to monitor performance. The module logs performance issues, such as page load times and memory usage, which allows you as a developer to find issues quickly and troubleshoot. In this chapter, we'll learn how to enable detailed and summarized performance logging on our...