Posted by quinns on July 1, 2010 at 6:45pm
Today we launched the new website for the Sonoma County Airport at http://sonomacountyairport.org/
Sonoma County Airport's ultimate goal was to learn and use all the tools available to them to achieve optimum SEO. They were interested in a fresh "face" to their existing site and agreed that the power of Drupal was the best direction to take. The team at Nu-Designs built their new site. Sonoma County Airport is one of the most progressive mid-sized airports in the country and keep their site dynamic through the use of regular updates and social networking. Plus, they have Snoopy on their logo!
As always I'd love to hear any feedback from the Drupal community.
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Home page load time
I found the home page loaded slowly, so I ran this analysis
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
External Object QTY
Total HTML: 2
Total HTML Images: 19
Total CSS Images: 40
Total Images: 59
Total Scripts: 6
Total CSS imports: 5
Total Frames: 0
Total Iframes: 1
Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 647.97 seconds
28.8K 331.19 seconds
33.6K 285.93 seconds
56K 177.32 seconds
ISDN 128K 64.29 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 18.73 seconds
Seven (7) warnings appeared at the bottom of the analysis page.
After you make any obvious changes, try the Boost module. It will help anonymous visitors coming to your home page. http://drupal.org/project/boost
Other Drupal performance resources:
- http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/2536 cache
- http://drupaleasy.com/quicktips/low-hanging-fruit-increasing-site-perfor...
- http://hojtsy.hu/blog/2010-jun-13/drupal-6-performance-tips-review
- http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/quick-homepage-optimization
- http://acquia.com/community/resources/acquia-tv/best-practices-building-...
- http://wimleers.com/article/page-loading-profiling-tools
Interesting
Interesting! Thanks.
Just prior to launch we did the usual - optimized JS & CSS, turned on Drupal's built-in cache, etc. We have the Boost module available but are not currently using it on this site, but I will probably recommend to the client that we do so.
We did run the "YSlow" tool on the site and it got a "B" grade with a score of 83, which while not perfect, we did consider acceptable.
Thanks again for your feedback on this.
-- Quinn