Meetings

Abstract

What does it mean when someone says "My Site is slow now"? What is page speed? How do you measure it? How can you make it faster? We'll try to answer these questions, provide you with a set of tools to use and explain how this relates to your server load.

We will cover:

• What is page load speed?
• Tools used to measure performance of your pages and site
• Six Key Improvements to make Drupal "run fast"
• Performance Module settings and how they work
• Caching - biggest gainer and how to implement Boost
• Other quick hits: off loading search, tweaking settings & why running crons is important
• Ask your host about APC and how to make sure its set up correctly
• Dare we look at the database? Easy changes that will help a lot!
• Monitoring Best practices - what to set up to make sure you know what is going on with your server
• What if you get slashdoted? Recommendation on how to quickly take cover from a rhino.

Bio

Andrew Kucharski is a founder of Promet Source and iSupport Digital He has more than 15 years of technical and project management experience from startups to Fortune 50 firms with industry experience in banking, telecommunications, government, and association technology management. Mr. Kucharski is an Open Source technologies evangelist, contributor and frequent speaker at Drupal events. Mr. Kucharski's experience with Open Source solutions includes the implementation of a highly secure CRM platform for the Executive Office of the President and the delivery of highly scalable database management systems for the US Army Electronic Proving Ground at Fort Huachuca. His current clients using open source solutions such as Drupal include a number of leading associations such as the United States Chamber of Commerce

Getting to the meeting

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on B utterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn north (right when exiting westbound, left when exiting eastbound) to Warrenville Road. After the short distance, turn right at the traffic light to get to Naperville Road and turn left (north) for 1-2 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. If you arrive late, we suggest that you park and enter at the main doors at the south end of the building. IIT has started locking the other doors at 7pm, so the north doors by room 103 might be locked once we've started the meeting.

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