Testing Drupal Site Performance Across Browsers, Geographies and Networks

Testing Drupal Site Performance AcrossBrowsers, Geographies and NetworksBob Buffone Jess IandiorioCTO and Co-founder Sr. Director, Cloud ProductYottaa, Inc. Marketing Acquia

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Measuring your website in different ways!!! June 13th, 2012Yottaa Inc.http://www.yottaa.com

Agenda• The Web… Its complicated• Things that make a website slow• Human factors of web performance• How can you make your website faster?• Tweet – @rockstarapps – @yottaa 6

In between your visitors and you 8

websitetest.com 9

http://content.foxsearchlight.com/inside 10

Variability in Locations 11

Variability in ConnectivityConnectivity makes a big difference. Think about your experience on your phonecompared to your office. 12

Variability in BrowserBrowser differences can create surprising differences • Connection Management • JavaScript Engines • Rendering Speed 13

Lots of Requests• Product owners want rich websites – Rich in User Experience – Rich in Visual Presentation• Achieving richness requires more resources to be downloaded to the client – CSS – HTML – JavaScript – Images 15

Content Breakdownhttp://www.websitetest.com/ui/samples/4fd7e310cacea0731000019c#visualizations 16

Large Resources• Many of the resources that you need to load can be made fatter than required – HTML, CSS, JavaScript – Add lots of comments and white space – Images • Use images that are larger than displayed on the webpage • Always use the highest quality settings• Turn off gzip compression on your server 17

Large assets take longer to download 18

Large assets take longer to download 776KB 19

Bad Servers• There are many things that can make your servers slow – Poorly written code – Bad database design – Sharing a server with others – Old Servers – Not enough memory – Slow hard drives 20

Large assets take longer to download 21

3rd Party Plugins• Bloggers love to make their websites slow using plugins. – Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn – Photo plugins…• Not utilizing asynchronous loading of 3rd party resources. 22

Marketing Loves SocialSocial adds LOTS of resources -> 86 JavaScript, imagesand CSS. 23

Other things you can do• Redirect from www to non-www using client-side – Use a 301 redirection instead of 302• 404s – usually take longer• Run JavaScript code while your page is loading.• Only look at how fast your site is from your desktop• Think your website is fast enough• Do not test your websites performance• Think your developers would never do any of these things 24

Human Factors• Desire for Social• Desire to increase functionality• Lack of understanding about the impact of performance on the business• Lack of understanding about what makes a website slow or fast• Lack of the ability to determine if there is a problem• Lack of time to test and fix issues 26

Thank you for your timeBob (Buffone)CTO/Co-founderwww.yottaa.com 27

Questions• For more information visit: http://www.acquia.com• Contact us: sales@acquia.com or 888.9.ACQUIA• Follow us: @acquia• Comments welcome:• Jess.iandiorio@Acquia.com Today’s webinar recording will be posted to: http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars

Testing Drupal Site Performance Across Browsers, Geographies and Networks

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