Varbase Performance Base

A recipe to manage default performance optimization modules, caching configurations, and speed enhancements for Varbase.

This recipe provides core performance features including:

• Page caching with a 15-minute default lifetime optimised for Lighthouse
• CSS and JS preprocessing and aggregation
• ImageMagick as the default image toolkit for broader format support
• WebP image conversion for optimised delivery
• Image API optimization pipeline

Installation

Add the recipe using composer:

composer require drupal/varbase_performance_base:~1.0.0

Change directory to /web or /docroot

Run the Drupal recipe bash script:

bash core/scripts/drupal recipe recipes/contrib/varbase_performance_base

or

Run the Drush recipe command:

ddev drush recipe ../recipes/varbase_performance_base

Performance Features

Page Caching

• Page cache lifetime set to 900 seconds (15 minutes)
• Dynamic page cache enabled for authenticated users

Asset Aggregation

• CSS preprocessing and aggregation enabled
• JS preprocessing and aggregation enabled

Image Optimization

• ImageMagick v6 configured as the default image toolkit
• Image quality set to 75 for a balance between file size and visual quality
• WebP conversion enabled via imageapi_optimize_webp
• ImageAPI optimize pipeline for automated image processing

Maintainers

• Vardot

License

GPL-2.0-or-later