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Mobile web performance: the importance of the device

Let’s explore our web performance data from an angle we haven’t explored before: mobile device type.

Thumbor support for private wikis deployed

Yesterday we deployed Thumbor support for Wikimedia-hosted private wikis. While 99.9% of our traffic is for public-facing wikis, the Wikimedia Foundation hosts a number of private MediaWiki instances on the same infrastructure.

The journey to Thumbor, part 3: development and deployment strategy

Introducing Thumbor replaces an existing service, and as such it’s important that it doesn’t preform worse than its predecessor. We came up with a strategy to reach feature parity and ensure a launch that would be invisible to end users.

The journey to Thumbor, part 2: thumbnailing architecture

To understand why Thumbor is a good fit, it’s important to understand where it fits in our overall thumbnailing architecture. A lot of historic constraints come into play, where Thumbor could be adapted to meet those needs.

Improving time-to-logo performance with preload links

Thanks to a new web standard, we’ve recently deployed a small performance improvement that highlights some of the unique challenges we encounter on Wikimedia sites.