Alldrupalthemes.com did a performance comparision between Joomla 1.5 & Drupal 6.1. As the author of the post infers, the numbers collected may not mean much to the user in the "real world" and limitations in the test results should be noted. Nevertheless, numbers that compare Drupal and Joomla performance are always interesting.

The conclusions drawn from the results are:

1. Drupal is significantly faster than Joomla in all 4 setups
2. Drupal cuts down pageload time by ~74% when caching is enabled on the fresh install and ~86% with the more populated setup
3. Joomla cuts down pageload time by ~23% on the fresh install and ~20% on the more populated setup

These numbers are interesting and I bet the study pulls in a lot of visitors for All Drupal Themes. Not only are Drupal and Joomla users interested in these type of posts, but so are potential users shopping around the first time for a CMS. As always, you should judge a CMS by what it does for you and not what it does for others.

"Check your Plone site's cachefu setup: small improvements can help a lot. I assume you've got a basic cachefu setup pat down already, which only means adding your few custom content types to the "content" or "container" rules and saying you've got squid (and/or apache) in front. You get good results with that: this blog entry helps you pinpoint some extra improvements."

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A few days ago, I mentioned that "Drupal 6 feels ready to me" for public release. Evidently, that was more than feeling as Drupal 6 was released early Wednesday morning.

As a user of Drupal, let me start by saying thank you to all the developers and advocates that brought Drupal 6 to light. I've been watching Drupal 6 grow from a distance this past year and have made some observations. There is a lot more sweat, tears, and love put into Drupal than most outsiders realize. Those of us that have used Drupal during the past six years owe a lot to those of you active in the Drupal community.

You can check out the release announcement at Drupal.org for all the new features and enhancements that have been rolled into Drupal 6. Let's look at some of the highlighted features in Drupal 6 which I've listed below.

"If there is any doubt about whether there will be performance improvements for Drupal 6, wonder no longer. Benchmarks, made using these standards, shows that the current, pre-beta, version of Drupal 6 performs 27% faster than Drupal 5.2 does when NO page caching is on."

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"Also remarkable is the fact that a high CI [collaboration index] score clearly translates into business performance. Overall, the research found, 36% of a company’s performance was due to its Collaboration Index, compared to 16% for the company’s strategic orientation, and 7% for market turbulence."

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"DotNetNuke 4.4 introduced a number of performance enhancements. Many of these enhancements required the creation of new overloads of some common methods and deprecation of the existing methods.

It is important for module developers, who wish their modules to take advantage of the new performance features to update their modules for performance."

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