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Improving Drupal's Page Loading Performance
The document discusses methods to improve Drupal's page loading performance, emphasizing its importance for user satisfaction and site usability. It outlines tools like YSlow, Cuzillion, and Jiffy for analyzing web performance and offers insights into optimization strategies including HTTP request reduction, content delivery networks (CDN), and JavaScript placement. Additionally, it introduces a bachelor's thesis that focuses on CDN integration and optimizing JavaScript placement for better performance.
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Student at Hasselt University Freelance Drupal developer Intern at Mollom
- #7 Popularity numbers: d.o usage statistics Conclusion: important for: - Drupal project growth - More Happy People
- #10 Create a simple test: the effect of an inline script between 2 images in different browsers. Webkit: executes script, then displays images Firefox: displays first image, executes script, displays second image
- #12 Notice how both images finish loading at the same time.
- #13 Notice how the second image finishes loading about 2 seconds after the first one.
- #15 I’ll only cover the 14 that were first published
- #16 - Apache logs => database (script on cron) => reports - Mark (start timing) & measure (measure elapsed time) approach - June 2008
- #20 - dumb bundling reduces the effectiveness of aggregation
- #24 script downloading? -> no other downloads are started, not even from other domain names == blocks parallel downloads
- #31 - Packer: * typically higher compression ratio, but: * adds a decompression delay on every page load!
- #34 script downloading? -> no other downloads are started, not even from other domain names == blocks parallel downloads