How to speed up your Drupal site loading time by profiling your code

Alex Dergachev and Jigar Mehta

Is your site too slow? The first step to a diagnosis is to analyze front-end performance, which usually reveals under-optimized images, excessive ads, or inefficient javascript scripts as the main culprits. But often you also will find that the page generation time is over a second, and will wonder where to go from there.

We will also discuss ongoing performance monitoring with tools like Blackfire and New Relic.

The examples will be presented from Drupal sites, but the tools are PHP specific, while the lessons apply to most web application programmers. The target audience is PHP developers with experience writing and debugging custom code.