Performance

For years, a recurring part of my work has been auditing Drupal projects. Slow websites land on my desk, sites with security issues nobody has reviewed in months, projects inherited from another agency where nobody really knows what state things are in. The common thread is almost always the same...

Free Drupal audit module and dashboard to monitor all your projects

drupal audit Performance

12 Apr 2026

Drupal 11.3: how to make your website load up to 50% faster

Performance Updates

17 Dec 2025

On December 17th, the Drupal team released version 11.3 with a bold headline: the biggest performance boost in a decade. After reviewing the data and independent tests, I think they're not exaggerating. What they improved The main change is in how Drupal handles database queries. Until now, if a page...

I just ran into a problem on a client's project. The thing is, we have a custom block with two fields, but we only render one of them in Twig, as we have modified the Twig template and do not use the default {{ content }}. ¿Problem? If the user...

Custom Blocks in Drupal and Issues with Caches

drupal cache Performance

13 Dec 2023

Deleting Drupal fields with large MySQL tables

Drupal 9 Performance mysql

01 Aug 2022

I just came across the case that I need to remove several fields from a content type in a Drupal 9. Those are simple to do, aren't they? On your site use the Drupal user interface, delete the fields and export the configuration. Then on the production site import the...

Note: This article is a reminder to my future self, so that next time I don't have to Google it again. In some cases it is interesting to know why your Drupal database weighs several GB, and knowing which are the tables that weigh more can tell us what may...

View the size of mysql tables that are too heavy

Performance

12 Mar 2022

WPO Drupal: Don't kill caches!!!!

Performance WPO

12 Feb 2022

The other day I had to investigate how to improve the performance of a Drupal website that is not fast enough and has problems with caches. This website has several things to improve, but the one I'm complaining about today is a custom module with a code equivalent to: /**...

I could have sworn I had done a post talking about the Quicklink module when it came out in 2019, but I couldn't find it. Today's article is about the post recently made by the Lullabot team (the maintainers of the module): https://www.lullabot.com/articles/improve-your-sites-experience-quickli… Does it improve performance? This module, in...

IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN DRUPAL WITH QUICKLINK 2.0

Drupal Modules Performance

24 Jun 2021

HIGH-PERFORMANCE SEARCHES WITH MAPS IN DRUPAL

Drupal Modules Maps Performance

22 Jul 2021

Today I come to talk about my SideProject Vabiso.com, which is going to be one year old next month, and how the backend is implemented to support a massive volume of data and show it all on a map. I'm going to separate this article into the sections that I...

Until recently, in most projects, I have put the Google recaptcha to avoid SPAM. Both for user login/registration and any other form accessible to anonymous users. Until now, I had always used two modules that configured between them allowed this functionality: https://www.drupal.org/project/captcha https://www.drupal.org/project/recaptcha But using these two modules have 3...

DRUPAL MODULE: "SIMPLE GOOGLE RECAPTCHA"

Drupal Modules Performance

10 Jul 2020

Why isn't Drupal cron running as often as it should?

Drupal 7 Drupal 8 Drupal 9

09 May 2020

Has it happened to you that you set up a Drupal site for a client and after launch, they complain because important things aren't happening? Search is not returning all the new results that have been created. Backups aren't running. Caches are not being cleared. You keep seeing content in...

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