Other Ways of Increasing Performance

Besides performance modules, there are several other methods for increasing the performance of your Drupal site.

Disable Modules Only Needed During Development

Only enable these modules while actively developing, and then turn them off the rest of the time.

• Field UI (in core)
• Rules UI/Admin
• Views UI
• Module Filter
• Advanced Help
• Fast Permissions Administration
• Devel

Track Your Site's Performance Baselines

• Drupal's Devel module
  • Execution time and memory usage
  • Query logging
• Web optimization
  • SpriteMe
• Web testing
  • webpagetest.org
  • Google's PageSpeed Online
• Browser-based
  • Firebug or Web Inspector
  • YSlow!
• Saas products
  • New Relic
  • Yottaa

Locate and Fix PHP Errors/Warnings

• Turn on verbose error reporting to find errors and warnings (check Apache error logs as well)
• Perform performance testing of any custom coding.

Optimize Javascript and Other Front-End Features

• Example modules using JavaScript:  Views Slideshow and Conditional Fields.