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Loving the look of Webmaster Forums. Totally different and refreshing from TWF when I first signed up 4 years ago.. I actually totally forgot about this place until I was looking through a few backed up emails I had..

Anyway, loving the look and looks like its a great community but sometimes some of the pages seem to drag at loading.

Keep up the great work though!!

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Hi Mark,

Welcome back to the forums! I'm glad you're enoying our new design.

We are aware that pages are sometimes slow to load. JeevesBond has spent the past few days working on some of our Drupal modules to make them faster. I think the one that's really slowing things down is the one that calculates the post counts (we use this for various other things too).

Unfortunately he is only upgrading the modules for Drupal version 6, so we have to wait until we upgrade to see any improvements. That could happen reasonably soon though Smiling

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Joined: May 2007

Yslow for Firefox suggests:

  • Make fewer HTTP requests
  • Add an Expires header
  • Put JS at the bottom
  • Minify JS

See Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site over at Yahoo for explanations.

Cordially, David
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webwiz wrote:
Yslow for Firefox suggests:

  • Make fewer HTTP requests
  • Add an Expires header
  • Put JS at the bottom
  • Minify JS

See Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site over at Yahoo for explanations.

Yslow is not always relevant for CMS like Drupal with a lot of modular parts. One of the known issues with Drupal is the large number of MySQL requests.

Fortunately, Drupal comes with some decent built-in caching (including css and js) and performance features, as well as selective throttling for high-volume periods (I don't think that is an issue here - yet)

A few months ago I met with developers at Northpoint Solutions who impressed me with Drupal sites that can handle in excess of 1,000,000 page views per minute during email campaigns. This is achieved by separating dynamic and static content, and more aggressive caching including memcache.

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Cordially, David
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