Maximizing Site Speed with Mercy Corps

In a world where your page load speed is critical to success…

I couldn’t resist. With Drupalcon in Tinsel Town, I’m going to start most of my conversations with “in a world…” [Ed. note: Only if you use the Don LaFontaine voice every time.]

My session for Drupalcon LA is a partner session with Forum One client Mercy Corps. We’ll team up to show you how we maximized the performance of mercycorps.org. Maximizing Site Speed with Mercy Corps will take a tour of specific measures we used to make their critical fundraising platform blazing fast. Come see me, John Brandenburg, and Drew Betts, lead User Experience Designer at Mercy Corps, as we tag team on subjects like measuring user engagement, debugging Drupal caches and measuring performance. We will even discuss some quick tips that every Drupal site manager should use to maximize the performance of their own site.

Why come to this session?

Perhaps because Google itself ranks your site on speed. Or perhaps increments in site speed can demonstrably increase conversion rates. Or perhaps you are tired of hearing the groans of your own digital staff about the performance of your public site. After the session, we will have a Q&A where you can learn from the experts and ask questions about improving the performance of your own sites. In the meantime you can also check out my more detailed blog post on Drupal site speed.