Quick, Dirty, Ruthless: real-life performance 101
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"Why is my site slow? How do I make it better?"
You don't have to be a professional performance analyst to improve your site's performance. You need good tools, correctly configured, and a knowledge of what modules and technologies can help -- and hurt! -- you. Performance improvements are an ongoing process: you will test, evaluate, fix what you find, and repeat the process for as long as you maintain a site.
But where do you start?
We'll talk about how the largest Drupal support team in the world evaluates site performance every single day:
- What do we fix first, and why
- How we assess what fixes will best benefit YOUR site, and YOUR users
- Why the answer to "making a Drupal site faster" frequently lies outside of Drupal
- What common configuration mistakes we see every day
- What tools your team needs to assess your site's performance
This session is intended for site maintainers, coders, or anyone who has felt overwhelmed by all of the performance advice given about Drupal. They will come away with:
- A solid checklist of where to start
- Practical knowledge that will serve them well on all major versions of Drupal
- A list of modules and server configuration ideas to research
- Ideas for how to balance site speed versus content freshness
- A list of tools that will serve them well as their performance knowledge grows