Andreas
Sascha GrossenbacherI've been busy working on a large number of performance improvements in Drupal 11.3 and contributed projects, together with @catch56 and many others.
Everything combined, we're seeing hundreds of queries less on complex pages. On one specific example page that we measured in a cold cache scenario, that's a reduction of 670 queries, 62% of the total queries. And that doesn't even include similarly reduced cache lookups and writes.
Read more on our blog post.
https://www.md-systems.ch/en/blog/2025-12-16/performance-improvements-drupal-11-3
Performance improvements in Drupal 11.3 and Paragraphs
The latest release of Drupal core, combined with updates to Entity Reference Revisions, Paragraphs and other modules save hundreds of queries when rendering complex pages. This post goes through all the improvements that make this possible.