webwiz wrote: Yslow for

decibel.places — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:00:25 +0000

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.

Cordially, David -- "Old web

azmir — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:13:04 +0000

Cordially, David
--
"Old web developers don't die, they degrade gracefully..."
nice saying dude lolzzzzzz

Yslow for Firefox

webwiz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:38:12 +0000

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.

Hi Mark, Welcome back to the

Megan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:16:22 +0000

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