By darrenlambert on

I have the page cache activated on my Drupal installations. I have avoided using URL Aliases on my new website, as I expect the node count and visitor numbers to be high over the coming year.

Am I right in thinking that performance will be better without URL Aliases, even when caching is activated? I understand that the page cache is for anonymous visitors only.

Thanks, Darren

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kbahey commented

There is some overhead with path aliases because of the database lookups for each page view, but in reality, the overhead is minimal and is outweighed by the SEO benefits of having meaningful URLs.

We run client sites that get heavy traffic (many million page views per month) with path aliases on, without issues.
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