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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

Recommended modules that work with Boost


You will recall that when we installed the Boost module for the first time, there were a couple of recommended modules that work with Boost to help optimize your site for performance. These are the Global Redirect, Pathauto, and Transliteration modules. Let's briefly look at each of these modules and view their configuration and settings to understand how they will work on our site and help speed up performance.

Global Redirect

The Global Redirect module allows you to remove trailing slashes / from URLs. It also checks to see if your Drupal site has clean URLs enabled and, if so, will prevent unclean URLs from ever being accessed. You can do a lot more with this module and all of the details are listed on its Drupal project page here: http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect.

The module also redirects any specific node/ID page to its alias if an alias exists. This is important, as your site will get requests by visitors for duplicate nodes or pages...