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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

Generating test users, categories, and content


Another use of the Devel module besides all the great functionality we discussed in Chapter 3 is to generate test 'dummy' content, taxonomy categories, and users for your website. This functionality is part of the Devel module and to confirm that you can use this, go to your admin modules list and check to make sure the Devel generate module is enabled.

To generate users, nodes, and taxonomy terms for your site go to the Generate items main page in your site admin. That will launch a page with links to Generate categories, Generate content, and Generate users. As we already have some content on our site (that I originally implemented by using Generate content), we're going to try generating some test users for our website. Follow these steps to generate users:

  1. 1. Click on the Generate users link.

  2. 2. Tell the Devel module how many users to add to the site. The default is 50. We'll add 10 users to our site. Type 10 in the field.

  3. 3. You can also...