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.
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...