Performance

Top 6 things to do while your cache clears on its own

Linnea Ann Williams — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:05:39 +0000

Caches are a great tool, they store your website's database and code information in a way that loads much faster. But they DO mean that your changes don't appear right away.

Where are my changes?

One of the things we here at Stanford Web Services get emailed about most frequently is, "Why did my changes disappear when I logged out?" The answer is that the site caches haven't yet been updated, but they will if we wait a little bit (sometimes a few hours or so).

XML Sitemap and Cache Priming

John Bickar — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:59:34 +0000

As a follow-up to my post on configuring your Drupal site for improved performance, in this post I will detail how to go a little further using the XML Sitemap module to create a sitemap, and then using the ITS Scheduling Service to set up a cron job to "prime" the page cache for all pages in the sitemap.

Tuning for Performance

John Bickar — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:47:11 +0000

What's better, fast or slow? That's right. Fast. There are a couple of ways you can tune the performance of your Drupal site to decrease page load times. Below are two simple things you can do today.