Page Load speeds

You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!

Slow page delivery can decimate the value of your site. With Google penalizing sites that take longer than 6 seconds, and short mobile attention spans, website performance is more important than ever!

The scientific method and website effectiveness

How do you know if your website is working effectively? What does that even mean?

Sustainable/Open Business

Grafana line showing load dropping to normal

Rate Limiting an aggressive bot in Nginx

High load isn't necessarily an emergency, but it may be a heads-up before a site noticeably slows down. Sometimes there are weird spikes that just go away, but sometimes this is an indication of a Denial of Service.

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Performance

Website Performance Monitoring

The internet is rewriting our brain, literally. In a 2015 Microsoft study, it was found that the average attention span is down to about 9 seconds. Does your website have the page load times to hold people’s attention?

How do you rate Performance?

How quick do pages on your site load? How quick should they load? How do you make pages load quicker?
Why should you care?

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Drupal on Docker, with a pinch of Salt

Faster, more secure, more maintainable. Three nice benefits we get from our new standard Drupal server architecture.

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Embed or integrate? The problem with widgets

We hear it all the time:

Why do you recommend a 6 hour budget for a simple integration? Here's an embed widget right here -- if this were WordPress I could do it myself!

Well, in Drupal you can do it yourself, exactly the same way you might in WordPress. Add a block, use an input format that doesn't strip out Javascript, paste in your code, put the block where you want it on your page, and away you go.

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Ask Freelock: Build, embed, or integrate SaaS with Drupal?

Mike, looking for information about integrating a data collection Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, asked:

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Performance problem: N! database calls

Kicking off some posts about various performance challenges we've fixed.

N Factorial

[Edit: Thomas point out this is not really factorial, because it's addition of each number in the sequence intead of multiplication].

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I've got a theory: The Scientific Method applied to web site performance

What can you do about this page being so slow? That's a question we've been asked by half a dozen customers in the past 6 months, and as it turns out, we can do quite a lot.

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N Factorial