Speeding up Drupal sites

François Martin, co-founder of Kiliweb, French Drupal web agency, tells how they improved the performance of 3 Drupal sites.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 14, 2016

François Martin co-founded Kiliweb, a French Drupal web agency, about 6 years ago.

They strive to deliver quick web apps, and when they started to use Blackfire.io, they found in a few hours some simple ways to improve drastically some of their apps.

François wrote an article in the context of the #FireUpMyMac contest, telling 3 different case studies on 3 different websites:

  • They halved an e-comerce site’s homepage load time with 3 simple optimizations
  • They improved a non-profit website’s homepage by 85% by easily spotting a heavy SQL query
  • They improved a community website’s user profile page by 20% by finding a better way to cache data

François’ final thought?

With Blackfire, it becomes super easy to discover commons mistakes : slow Drupal modules, slow SQL Queries, slow templates, external API calls, or simply to decide what needs to be cached.

The initial setup is much simpler than other profilers like XHProf or XDebug.

Read the full article here.

Happy profiling!

Christophe Dujarric

Christophe is the Chief Product Officer at Blackfire. He's an engineer, but probably one of the least "tech" people in the company. He's wearing many hats, from product management to marketing and sales. He loves the beauty of simple solutions that solve actual problems.
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