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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 5. Using DB Maintenance and Boost

In this chapter, we're going to install, configure, and utilize the DB Maintenance and Boost modules. DB Maintenance will allow us to maintain and optimize our MySQL database from within the Drupal admin interface. Boost will help us to speed up page load times on our site for our anonymous site users by using its sophisticated and advanced page, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript caching mechanisms. We'll look at basic introductory Boost concepts in this chapter, and later in Chapter 6 we will look at more advanced topics using the Boost module. Consider this a two part dose of the Boost module. Both of these contributed modules will help you diagnose problems on your site and server as well as help to keep your site running smoothly and in an optimized fashion. These are not required modules, but rather are recommended modules to add to your Drupal performance arsenal. The way this chapter will work is that we'll outline the purpose of each module, install...