A list of Drupal performance resources. Pull requests welcome!
- Drupal.org (Start Here)
- Checklists
- Advanced
- drupal.stackexchange.com
- General Performance Tools
- General Performance Theory
- Presentations
- Feeds
- Distributions
- Modules
Optimizing Drupal to load faster (Server, MySQL, caching, theming, HTML)
Caching: Modules that make Drupal scale
Colan Schwartz's Drupal 7 Performance Optimization Options and Checklist
Neerav Mehta's Drupal Performance Optimization Checklist
O'Reilly's "High Performance Drupal: Fast and Scalable Designs"
O'Reilly's "High Performance Drupal: Fast and Scalable Designs" - free preview of 1st chapter
Drupal 7 performance related patches & replacements for core functionality
Use Grunt and AdvAgg to inline critical CSS on a Drupal 7 theme
APCu and OpCache optimization for a large Drupal site
How do you improve Drupal performance?
Real world experience in scaling and tuning performance
Do non-enabled Drupal modules affect performance?
Given that db_select is much slower than db_query, why would I want to use it?
Nginx vs Apache - Are there any actual usage comparisons and statistics out there?
Benchmarking and profiling Drupal
Which are the load testing tools that can be easy to use for a developer?
14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites
Premature Optimization (is the root of all evil)
Fixing Performance in the Web Stack
Think Quarterly: The Speed Issue
Introducing RAIL: A User-Centric Model For Performance
High Performance Browser Networking
4x High Performance for Drupal - Step by Step
Auditing Drupal sites for performance, content and optimal configuration
Creating a Culture of Performance
Solving Drupal Performance and Scalability Issues
Better performance with Apache/Nginx
Making Drupal fly - The fastest Drupal ever is near!
Drupal.org, high performance group
Drupal.org, performance taxonomy page
Acquia, Drupal Website Performance series
Drupal Answers, performance tag
Reddit, r/drupal, performance posts
Dropbucket, performance/scalability snippets
Drupal Planet, performance tag (via drupalsun.com)
- Redis - README (7.x-3.x)
- Memcache API and Integration - README (7.x-1.x)
- APC - Alternative PHP Cache - README (7.x-1.x)