A fast website is a good website, but making a website fast takes work. This session of couch coding will discuss the tips & tricks necessary to build the feeds & speeds into your website to make it soar.

1. TROUBLESHOOTING
Drupal Performance Problems

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Speed Matters

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When To Think About Performance
• When you actually
have a problem.
• Before a launch or
major traffic event.

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Do Not Do Optimize Prematurely

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Use Data to Do Your Performance Work

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Two Pillars of Performance Troubleshooting

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But Also Make Sure To Use Your Intuition

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How Do Know If You Have Performance Problems
• When the Data Shows
You Have a Problem
• When Your Start
Hearing Complaints
from Your Users

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Five Things To Check First
1. Is Varnish Working?
2. Is Drupal Caching?
3. Do You Have a CDN?
4. Is Your Host a Good One?
5. Is Your Page Load Sane?

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http://varnishcheck.getpantheon.com
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Is Varnish Working?

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admin/config/development/performance
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Is Drupal Caching?

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https://www.fastly.com
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Do You Have a CDN?

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https://pantheon.io
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Is Your Host a Good One?

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http://getfirebug.com
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Is Your Page Load Sane?

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Then Let’s Start Testing

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Load Impact 101

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Load Impact: Custom Scenarios
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/load-impact-user-scenario

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Load Impact: Running the Test

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New Relic 101

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New Relic: Understanding Results

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New Relic: Understanding the Drupal

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New Relic: Understanding the Database

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New Relic: Understanding External Services

24. THANK YOU