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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

Summary


We've covered a lot of material in this chapter and looked at one of the larger Drupal contributed modules—a module that provides a huge amount of functionality and tools to the Drupal performance developer. You should now take time to use the Devel module every day during your Drupal development work and get to know each component in greater detail. Here's what we covered:

  • We looked at recent log entries in order to check on any potential PHP errors or other parse errors that may be occurring on our site. We also looked at the top page not found and access denied errors.

  • We installed and configured the Devel module and set permissions for our admin users to use the module.

  • We used the Devel module to check on database queries that occur during our page loads and how long these queries take to run. We also looked for duplicate queries and learned to watch out for those queries that take longer than our threshold millisecond benchmark.

  • We used the Development block to get easier access...