Speed up a Drupal web site by enabling CSS file aggregation
Speed up your web site by automatically combining multiple module and theme CSS files into one large file using Drupal's CSS file aggregation feature. The single large CSS file is more efficient to...
View ArticleSpeed up a Drupal web site by enabling block caching
Most Drupal web sites have a set of blocks that line the left or right sides of its web pages. Typical blocks are menus, lists of recent posts, and forms for logging in and searching. Every block adds...
View ArticleSpeed up a Drupal web site by avoiding slow blocks in your page layout
Drupal blocks provide secondary content that often lines the left and right sides of Drupal web pages. Typical blocks are menus, lists of recent posts, and forms for logging in and searching. But every...
View ArticleHow to improve search engine findability for a Drupal web site
A "findable" web site is one that search engines can easily scan to find content to add to their search indexes. Since most visitors today find web pages by using a search engine, the more easily...
View ArticleEssential steps to speed up a Drupal web site
An initial installation of the Drupal content management system can be slow. You can speed up your web site substantially by making a few essential adjustments to your site's web server, database, PHP,...
View ArticleDrupal and Apache Web Site Security Checklist, part 3
Default Drupal, Apache, and PHP settings broadcast to hackers much more about your site's configuration than hackers should know. In this third article in a series, I review settings to tighten...
View ArticleDrupal and Apache Web Site Security Checklist, part 2
Drupal's default settings provide rather loose security. In this second article in a series, I review Drupal configuration changes to tighten security and control who can create and view content.read...
View ArticleDrupal and Apache Web Site Security Checklist, part 1
Default configurations of Apache, PHP, and Drupal often serve files they shouldn't. In this first article in a series, I review configuration changes to tighten security by limiting access to files...
View ArticleDon’t bother using HTML white-space removal to speed up a web site
Removing HTML white-space (spaces, tabs, blank lines, and comments) makes a file slightly smaller and faster to send to a site visitor. The improvement you get depends upon how verbose your HTML is to...
View ArticleDon't bother using CSS optimization to speed up a web site
CSS optimization (a.k.a. minimization, cleaning, or tidying) removes white-space and comments, merges similar selectors, removes redundant properties, and cleans up a CSS file to make it more compact....
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