---
title: "Drupal 8 Performance Tuning"
url: "https://michalak.world/posts/drupal-8-performance-tuning/"
description: "Drupal 8 Performance Tuning"
summary: "Performance Tuning a Drupal 8 system."
date: 2019-04-17
lastmod: 2026-08-19
tags: ["Drupal","Performance","Google","Update","Drupal 8","Drupal Commmerce","Drupal Development"]
section: "posts"
author: "Michael Michalak"
site: "https://michalak.world/"
---

# Drupal 8 Performance Tuning

Drupal 8 Performance Tuning

This week I started a mini project to optimize a slow Drupal 8 website.

Drupal-8-Performance-Update.png

The issue, various parts of the website are taking 10, 20 and even 30 seconds to load. Wow, a long time.

My first round of updates to the Drupal configuration and code took off 15 - 20 seconds of page load time. Then after the second review of assets loading on the page, I was able to knock off about 3 MB of loaded resources. Now the page load must faster and is much lighter.

Here is a before and after comparison of page size, request sand load time:

before-after.png

Next steps, to go back through the requests that are sent, and then to review the hosting configuration.