diff --git a/packages/gatsby-source-drupal/README.md b/packages/gatsby-source-drupal/README.md
index 64e377413a3d2..9db4a3b78f2a4 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-source-drupal/README.md
+++ b/packages/gatsby-source-drupal/README.md
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ module.exports = {
 }
 ```
 
+On the Drupal side, we highly recommend installing [JSON:API
+Extras](https://www.drupal.org/project/jsonapi_extras) and enabling "Include
+count in collection queries" `/admin/config/services/jsonapi/extras` as that
+[speeds up fetching data from Drupal by around
+4x](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/32883).
+
 ### Filters
 
 You can use the `filters` option to limit the data that is retrieved from Drupal. Filters are applied per JSON API collection. You can use any [valid JSON API filter query](https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/modules/jsonapi/filtering). For large data sets this can reduce the build time of your application by allowing Gatsby to skip content you'll never use.
diff --git a/packages/gatsby-source-drupal/src/gatsby-node.js b/packages/gatsby-source-drupal/src/gatsby-node.js
index 7ed22d79de363..4ad61439251a9 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-source-drupal/src/gatsby-node.js
+++ b/packages/gatsby-source-drupal/src/gatsby-node.js
@@ -22,7 +22,28 @@ const agent = {
   // http2: new http2wrapper.Agent(),
 }
 
+let start
+let apiRequestCount = 0
+let initialSourcing = true
+let globalReporter
 async function worker([url, options]) {
+  // Log out progress during the initial sourcing.
+  if (initialSourcing) {
+    apiRequestCount += 1
+    if (!start) {
+      start = Date.now()
+    }
+    const queueLength = requestQueue.length()
+    if (apiRequestCount % 50 === 0) {
+      globalReporter.verbose(
+        `gatsby-source-drupal has ${queueLength} API requests queued and the current request rate is ${(
+          apiRequestCount /
+          ((Date.now() - start) / 1000)
+        ).toFixed(2)} requests / second`
+      )
+    }
+  }
+
   return got(url, {
     agent,
     cache: false,
@@ -72,6 +93,7 @@ exports.sourceNodes = async (
   },
   pluginOptions
 ) => {
+  globalReporter = reporter
   const {
     baseUrl,
     apiBase = `jsonapi`,
@@ -293,6 +315,7 @@ exports.sourceNodes = async (
   drupalFetchActivity.start()
 
   let allData
+  const typeRequestsQueued = new Set()
   try {
     const res = await requestQueue.push([
       urlJoin(baseUrl, apiBase),
@@ -370,7 +393,39 @@ exports.sourceNodes = async (
           if (d.body.included) {
             dataArray.push(...d.body.included)
           }
-          if (d.body.links && d.body.links.next) {
+
+          // If JSON:API extras is configured to add the resource count, we can queue
+          // all API requests immediately instead of waiting for each request to return
+          // the next URL. This lets us request resources in parallel vs. sequentially
+          // which is much faster.
+          if (d.body.meta?.count) {
+            // If we hadn't added urls yet
+            if (d.body.links.next?.href && !typeRequestsQueued.has(type)) {
+              typeRequestsQueued.add(type)
+
+              // Get count of API requests
+              // We round down as we've already gotten the first page at this point.
+              const pageSize = new URL(d.body.links.next.href).searchParams.get(
+                `page[limit]`
+              )
+              const requestsCount = Math.floor(d.body.meta.count / pageSize)
+
+              reporter.verbose(
+                `queueing ${requestsCount} API requests for type ${type} which has ${d.body.meta.count} entities.`
+              )
+
+              const newUrl = new URL(d.body.links.next.href)
+              await Promise.all(
+                _.range(requestsCount).map(pageOffset => {
+                  // We're starting 1 ahead.
+                  pageOffset += 1
+                  // Construct URL with new pageOffset.
+                  newUrl.searchParams.set(`page[offset]`, pageOffset * pageSize)
+                  return getNext(newUrl.toString())
+                })
+              )
+            }
+          } else if (d.body.links?.next) {
             await getNext(d.body.links.next)
           }
         }
@@ -480,6 +535,9 @@ exports.sourceNodes = async (
     createNode(node)
   }
 
+  // We're now done with the initial sourcing.
+  initialSourcing = false
+
   return
 }