Recently, Google announce that they will use site speed in web search ranking. Site speed according to Google "reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests". For our website to go high in search ranking, we need to reduce the load time, thus speeding up the site response.

I found Drupal very light weight when used for a single-user blog. When properly configured, you will have fast loading blog. The default installation of Drupal is actually enough to handle your blog but to gain more control, we are going to tweak it a little so that Drupal will behave like a normal blog. This post will assume that you have a fresh installed Drupal site. If you want to know how to install Drupal, refer to my previous post, How to Install Drupal CMS to Your Server.

This discussion will cover the following: core modules to install, contributed modules to install, using the Taxonomy module, and harnessing the power of Views.

The following is a list of must-have modules for a Drupal powered websites. It doesn't matter what type of site you are running. May it be a blog, a picture gallery, video gallery, online magazine, intranet and corporate websites, e-commerce website, educational site, government websites, a forum, community portal, a technical site, news publishing, art gallery, directories, conference room, you name it. I may say, don't go with your site live without these modules installed enabled and properly configured.