High Performance for Small Sites - Stanford Drupal Camp 2012

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1. High  Performance  for  Small  Sites     John  Bickar,  Stanford

    Web  Services     Slides:  h8p://ayl.lv/hpss     1

2. Small  VPS   What  is  a  “small  site?”   Shared

    hosCng   Limited/no  access  to  Linux/Apache  layer   Cannot  install  Varnish,  memcache,  etc.  

3. What  is  a  “small  site?”   If  you  run:  

     $ sudo apt-get install varnish   And  it  returns,  “user  not  sufficiently  super,”  you   might  have  a  small  site.  

4. YOUR  SLOW  DRUPAL  SITE  

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8. What you want.

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10. What you can make your users think you have.

11. What you’re still not going to get.

12. The  CreaCon  of  a  Slow  Drupal  Site   A  play

     in  four  acts  

13. ACT  I:  INCEPTION  

14. “We  need  a  Drupal!”  

15. ACT  II:  CREATION  

16. Work,  work,  work  

17. ACT  III:  EXPANSION  

18. “That’s  great!”   “Can  we  add…”   Events   Contact

     form   Restricted  content   Room  reservaCons   Seventeen  more  roles   Publishing  workflow   Ten  more  content  types   Slap  Chop   George  Foreman  grill   Custom  breadcrumbs   Custom  .tpl.php   Custom  web  app   Mobile  device  detecCon   Field-­‐level  permissions   GI  Joe  with  the  kung-­‐fu  grip   Discussion  forums  

19. ACT  IV:  DECELERATION  

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21. May  5th,  2012   21 IniCal  Assessment   HosCng  OpCons

      Traffic   Resources   PrioriCes  

22. May  5th,  2012   22 Assessing  Performance   Bo8lenecks  

    When?   Where?   What?   Who?   Why?  

23. May  5th,  2012   23 General  Tips   Delete  unnecessary

     modules   Disable  unnecessary  modules  
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27. May  5th,  2012   27 General  Tips   Use  them

      Drupal  core  performance  se`ngs   admin/se`ngs/performance  (D6)   admin/config/development/performance  (D7)  

28. May  5th,  2012   28 TesCng  Tools   YSlow  

    Inspector  in  Chrome,  Safari   ApacheBench  

29. May  5th,  2012   29 Advanced  Performance  -­‐  Caching  

    Cache  Rules  Everything  Around  Me   Cache  gets  stale  

30. May  5th,  2012   30 Advanced  Performance  -­‐  Caching  

    cron   32 * * * * curl -sS http://www.example.com/foo > \ /dev/null

31. May  5th,  2012   31 Advanced  Performance  -­‐  Caching  

    Views  caching   Panels  caching   Boost   AuthCache  

32. Prove  it   techcommons.stanford.edu   Homepage  load  Cme  with  uncached

      View:   9.7  seconds  

33. Prove  it   techcommons.stanford.edu   Homepage  load  Cme  ager  enabling

      Views  caching:   2.8  seconds  

34. Prove  it   techcommons.stanford.edu   Homepage  load  Cme  ager  enabling

      Boost  caching:   117  milliseconds  

35. May  5th,  2012   35 Advanced  Performance  -­‐   Debugging

      Devel  
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39. May  5th,  2012   39 Summary   Know  thy  users

          Keep  Calm   And   DRUPAL  ON   Know  thy  content   Know  thy  traffic  

40. Appendix   Linkies:   •  h8p://techcommons.stanford.edu/topics/web-­‐development/benchmarking-­‐site-­‐performance-­‐apachebench   •  h8p://techcommons.stanford.edu/topics/drupal/boost  

      •  h8p://techcommons.stanford.edu/topics/drupal/improving-­‐drupal-­‐performance-­‐and-­‐speed-­‐leland-­‐servers     •  h8p://techcommons.stanford.edu/tags/performance