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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


In this chapter, we learned the following performance tips:

  • Used the Throttle module to throttle our blocks and modules.

  • Used the Devel module to generate test content, users, and categories.

  • Configured caching for our Views and learned how to enable and disable caching per View. We also looked at how the Devel module returns information about our Views build times based on these cache settings.

  • Learned how to clear our Views cache.

  • Looked at how the Panels module uses caching and how you can enable caching per panel.

Let's take a break! When we come back in Chapter 5, we'll take a look at contributed modules that are built for specific types of performance monitoring. This will include the Boost, Memcache, DB Maintenance, Block Cache, Advanced Cache, and File Based Caching modules.