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- How to reduce page load times by sending emails via cron, rather on page submissionOctober 27
- A frequent problem we see at client sites is when they click submit on a page, whether it is a creation of a node or a comment, and then the site does not come back for several minutes.
- Performance benchmarking of Drupal 5.12, Drupal 6.6, and Drupal 7.x: we are getting slower ...October 26
- Earlier this month, we published an article on benchmarking Drupal 5.x vs. 6.x: which one faster? We wanted to take this analysis a step further and benchmark them both with Drupal 7.x as well. Methodology So, we got a checkout of Drupal 7.x as of October 24th, when update.php starting working for that version. We also used Drupal 5.12, and Drupal 6.6 which are the current and previous stable versions.
- Benchmarking Drupal 5.x vs. 6.x: which one is faster?October 11
- At the last Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group meeting, Lana mentioned a benchmark of Drupal 5.8 vs. Drupal 6.3 by Vision Media in Victoria. The benchmark concludes that Drupal 5 is faster than Drupal 6. Intrigued by this benchmark, we proceeded to replicate it in a rigorous fashion.
- How relying on connections to third party servers can be detrimental to performanceOctober 10
- One client of ours was facing severe issues with their relatively new well equipped server: the server stopped responding to web requests, and was rebooted, only to stop responding again. Upon investigation, we found out that pages were taking a lot of time to load. This only happened when viewing a node in full page view, not when the nodes were in lists (just as in views, node edit form ...etc.) Devel was showing this:
- Increasing Drupal's speed via the Squid caching reverse proxySeptember 10
- Dynamic web applications like Drupal offer a lot of benefits for a web site. However, when it comes to scalability, there can be challenges with any dynamic web site, including those build with Drupal.