Drupal development or websites act as extremely beneficial if even a small amount of care is provided to its performance. Drupal is at that stage that it has achieved a tremendous amount of popularity in its full web development. Drupal is considered to be one of the most excellent open sources which lay excess emphasis on CMC development of the enterprise level. Drupal has an immense amount of benefits to drive global business and maintain all the guidelines, rules, and regulations to the fullest of the majority of the search engines.
Drupal has come up with its latest version, which comes up with 200+ features and is considered as one of the most adaptable versions to look into the features which will attract the customers to visit the website. There are a plethora of exclusive features integrated into Drupal, which gives out astonishing results, and this is the reason why Drupal has been doing well in this cut-throat competition.
Five Brilliant Ways to Use Drupal Development
Optimization of Images, CSS & the JavaScript Files
As per a thorough understanding and research, an image takes about 56% weight of an actual web page, which is more than half. Hence, naturally optimizing the overall picture will help to increase the overall speed. There are several advanced CSS/JS module aggregates and compresses CSS and various other JavaScript files, which improves to make the whole website run faster, smoother, and better.
Drupal core, which is an advanced version of Drupal, is even more useful as it can resize the images and help in placing the right image in the right situation at the right time. Can it get better? This is what the Dual-core has to offer. Eventually, reducing the overall image size does help to reduce the bandwidth and space — the lesser and encrypted the area, the better the speed of the website. Speed plays a vital role in the overall experience of the customer.
Latest Versions
Drupal as a platform keeps getting updated regularly. Hence, it is always advised to maintain a security check on the versions that help to get away with a lot of buses as well. The webmaster helps in updating all the versions of Drupal, which eventually leads to a better website performance by a considerable margin.
Hence, all the users are advised that all the themes, core, and modules should time and again be checked and be updated.
Disable All the Waste Modules
Individuals have this long-time negative behavior of opening several tabs on their laptops and collecting as much information as possible. However, this approach is not a very effective one. There is no harm in collecting as much material as possible from the various sources. What makes a mess is to handle so much data altogether. What is the point of having so many models and resources collected, but not able to make proper use of it?
Each of the modules in Drupal has an attached overhead. Hence, it is also advisable not to run a total of 50 modules. Here is an effective curated list of a few modules which can be disabled if one thinks that they do not need to use it on their website:
Updated Manager
Dashboard
Colour & Toolbar
Help & Shortcut
Devel and Devel node access
Blog & Forum
Tracker & Statistics
Database Logging
Field, Rules & Views UI
Opting for Fast Web Hosting
Although in the market their several web hosts, it becomes tricky to decide which one to go for and which one to not to go for. Hence, it is always advised and suggested to invest in such a web host, which is reliable and, at the same time, very speedy as well. Choosing a web host is one of the vital decisions one ends up taking when they tend to increase their overall perforce on their Drupal website. Pricing should not be considered much when investing in web hosts, as there have been cases when individuals have ended up purchasing cheap and shared hosting, but they end up being super crowded with the servers. This eventually leads to the sharing up of resources with a thousand more people and makes the server super slow.
Hence, instead of investing in servers that are extremely cheap and low cost, it is always advised to go for servers that add a certain amount of value even if that means that they cost a few bucks extra. As a suggestion, one can always go with VPS systems like Digital Ocean or Vultr. These are some of the VPS’s, which will help in taking full control of all the resources.
Lazy Loading & Caching Module
The lazy loading of images is one of the most convenient and easy ways to increase the page loading. This helps in making sure that the pictures used will load when they are generally visible to the end of the final user. Amongst the various Drupal module, ‘Image LazyLoader’ is the most known one, which has over 18000+ downloads. Hence, this is highly recommended to each and everyone to use the ‘Image Resize Filter’ module, which helps in scaling down the various images once they are uploaded. Gradually one does not need to rely on any of the CSS to scale the photos down.
Catching is yet another great way through which the website can catch the speed. This is mainly done when any visitor visits the site. The only drawback here is that when visitors tend to empty their cache on the computer, it doesn’t work very well as visitors tend to do that very often. Drupal currently has eight built-in methods that enable all the caches without even needing to install the various added modules. There is some extension which does have a better grip. The different caching modules can be Page Caching, Panel caching, etc. and many more.
Author’s Bio:
I’m currently working as Content Manager with Web World Experts. I have a great passion for digital marketing and I help small and medium-sized businesses improve their online presence and grow their revenue by formulating effective digital marketing strategies for them. Apart from Digital Marketing, I have a keen interest in Responsive Web Design India, Web Development, Drupal Outsourcing, Graphic Design, Web Application Development technology, etc.
