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By sid16 on
I am a freelance web designer from Colombo, Sri Lanka. This is my first website. I developed this site as a community portal for Sri Lanka.
Website URL: http://www.srilankaonline.org
Drupal version: 6.19
Theme: Mix and Match, a Fusion sub-theme with Skinr support
Contributed Modules
CCK - For the various content-types and custom fields
Views - For creating lists of content
Views Slideshow - For the image galleries
Search Lucene API - for faceted site search (Try searching for "colombo")
Display Suite - for the node layouts
Boost - To speed up page loading
Classified Ads - for the classified ads section
CAPTCHA - for spam prevention
Fivestar - For rating
Job Posting - for the job board
Quicktabs
Page Title
Quiz
Webform
Tooltips
To prevent users outside of Sri Lanka from registering, I used a combination of Countries API, IP to Country and Register Country. I would like to have some feedback on this.
I am not very good at graphic design and I have not hired a graphic designer yet. Have a look at this business profile http://www.srilankaonline.org/profile/733. Let me have your suggestions.
I am using shared hosting from iWeb. I would like to know how fast the pages load and any browser problems.
Feel free to give me your suggestions, feedback and ideas to improve upon this site. I thank the developers of Drupal and the module contributors. Keep up the good work !
Comments
Homepage download times
Homepage download times for http://www.srilankaonline.org/
Connection Rate / Download Time
14.4K / 336.50 seconds
28.8K / 179.75 seconds
33.6K / 157.36 seconds
56K / 103.61 seconds
ISDN 128K / 47.69 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps / 25.14 seconds
Source: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
Performance analysis
- http://drupal.org/node/559812 Install tools to measure performance of SQL queries
- http://drupal.org/project/cache_browser Cache browser
- http://drupal.org/project/devel Performance Logging
- http://drupal.org/project/hosting_stats Hosting Diagnostics
- http://drupal.org/project/network_manager Network Manager
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems
- http://exchange.munin-monitoring.org/plugins/wget_page/details monitoring page load time with Munin
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/misc/perf-tuning.html
- http://loganalyzer.adiscon.com/ LogAnalyzer
- http://munin-monitoring.org/ Munin monitoring
- http://stevesouders.com/hammerhead/ Hammerhead - FF firebug addon
- http://wimleers.com/article/page-loading-profiling-tools
- http://www.rsyslog.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsyslog Rsyslog
- http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ web page optimization metrics and tips
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5369/ Yslow - FF firebug addon
- https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfxw4nng_66hqnqqrfs Monitoring with Munin slides
Performance improvement
- http://2bits.com/articles/drupal-performance-tuning-and-optimization-for... 76 articles
- http://acquia.com/community/resources/acquia-tv/best-practices-building-...
- http://books.tag1consulting.com/scalability Drupal Performance and Scalability
- http://drupal.org/node/282862 Drupal Performance Measurement & Benchmarking
- http://drupal.org/node/326504 **Drupal caching, speed and performance** (another compilation)
- http://drupal.org/node/466972 improving the speed of Simpletest during development
- http://drupal.org/node/627252 Managing site performance
- http://drupal.org/node/648458 Capacity Planning
- http://drupal.org/project/ajaxify_regions Ajaxify Regions
- http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr Apache Solr Search Integration
- http://drupal.org/project/boost Boost static page caching
- http://drupal.org/project/cache Cache
- http://drupal.org/project/cacheexclude CacheExclude
- http://drupal.org/project/cacherouter CacheRouter
- http://drupal.org/project/css_emimage CSS Embedded Images
- http://drupal.org/project/css_gzip CSS Gzip
- http://drupal.org/project/csstidy CSSTidy
- http://drupal.org/project/db_maintenance
- http://drupal.org/project/dbtuner DB Tuner | https://launchpad.net/mysqltuner
- http://drupal.org/project/drupal_tweaks Drupal tweaks
- http://drupal.org/project/elysia_cron Elysia Cron
- http://drupal.org/project/javascript_aggregator Javascript Aggregator
- http://drupal.org/project/js High-performance JavaScript callback handler
- http://drupal.org/project/memcache Memcache
- http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid:123&solrsort=sis_project_r...
- http://drupal.org/project/pathcache Path Cache
- http://drupal.org/project/performance_hacks Drupal 7
- http://drupal.org/project/tiny_menu_editor Tiny Menu Editor
- http://drupal.org/project/turbo Turbo
- http://drupal.org/project/varnish Varnish HTTP Accelerator Integration
- http://drupal.org/project/views_litepager Views Litepager
- http://drupal.org/project/vitzo_powersql PowerSQL
- http://drupaleasy.com/quicktips/low-hanging-fruit-increasing-site-perfor...
- http://groups.drupal.org/high-performance High performance group
- http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/2536 cache
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/misc/perf-tuning.html
- http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/quick-homepage-optimization
- http://www.getpantheon.com/mercury/what-is-mercury Mercury
- http://www.hojtsy.hu/blog/2010-jun-13/drupal-6-performance-tips-review
- http://www.pressflow.org/ PressFlow - Tuned Drupal distribution
I am running a 1.5 mb
I am running a 1.5 mb connection and the page was fully loaded in about 2-3 seconds. The site looks nice. I hope you get a good community group using it.
Connection speed and caching on seo-webdesign.lk
I have an IT consulting firm in UK and a development centre in Sri Lanka
We developed our Sri Lankan site using drupal 6 with a custom template
After enabling the caching in UK our site loads below one second and srilanka
it takes upto 8 minutes (http://seo-webdesign.lk)
This was using a 1.5 Mb ADSL line
we atried our best to strip down the css and java scripts and then to fina an acceptable speed
There were performance optimisations steps, but they were not in an acceptable margin
We had to move the site back to our company site in uk http://seo-webdesignuk.com. The speed s in UK suites drupal best and its running with out any trouble
The initial srilankan web site is running on joomla now which has better performances
any one got any commends or suggestions?
Being a drupler, I didnt want joomla to do the job for me