Scaling for traffic

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!

🕑Feb 09, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬10

Handle 40x as much traffic -- Switch to Drupal 8 [Update: ok, not so much]

[Update: It turns out the Drupal 7 site we tested had page caching disabled.

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🕑Mar 20, 2016 🖋John Locke 💬1

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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🕑Jan 21, 2016 🖋John Locke 💬4

8 Reasons Why Drupal 8

Drupal 8 has been out for 2 months now, and there's never been a better time to choose Drupal for your website platform. Here are 8 reasons why!

Sustainable/Open Business

🕑Jul 25, 2015 🖋John Locke 💬1

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.

Dev Corner

🕑Jul 16, 2014 🖋John Locke 💬2

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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🕑Jul 13, 2014 🖋John Locke 💬1

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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