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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

The Devel module


The Devel module provides a suite of tools for the Drupal theme and performance developer. Two major components of the Devel module include helper utilities that monitor performance of your site, and tools for themers that allow for quick and more accurate theme development.

Developers can use the module to monitor all of the database queries that occur as each Drupal page loads. This tool will show you how many times the database query executes on each page when it loads. Knowing this is essential when monitoring performance because it allows you to find out which queries are repetitive and creating potential bottlenecks or other performance issues especially on a large site or multisite environment. As the module project page points out, you do not want to see queries running multiple times on the same page. The development component of the module also tells you how long the queries take to run. This can give you detailed information on which queries and functions may...