Caching

Since most of the site's traffic is unauthenticated, this is one of the easiest areas to address. This allows us to serve a cached (static/pre-built) page with no personal deviation. In this case, most of Drupal's out-of-the box mechanisms for caching are already utilized, which is great.

Though in a world where milliseconds of load time could cost you millions of users, sometimes putting in a little extra effort is necessary. In return, server load and therefore cost can be drastically reduced with the proper configuration.

Below are a set of recommendations based on our findings:

Views, block and panels caching do not appear to be fully utilized please review the links below.

• Views Caching
• Blocks Caching
• Panels Caching

Drupal core caching methods are all utilized which is good, but the Minimum Cache Lifetime should be set to none at admin/config/development/performance.

For a significant increase in performance, consider the alternative caching back-ends below.

• Caching Backends