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Author: Gilles Dubuc

How we contributed Paint Timing API to WebKit

The story of how we decided to commission the implementation of Paint Timing API, a feature that lets us observe web performance from an end-user perspective. This web browser feature tells us at what point in time content started to appear on the screen for a visitor.
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Posted on: June 24, 2020 Last updated on: November 24, 2020 Comments: 3 Noam Rosenthal and Gilles Dubuc

Measuring the performance of Wikipedia visitors’ devices

We have been collecting microbenchmark scores for over a year. This lets us see the long-term evolution of our audience as a whole. The information gives us an idea of how fast device/operating system/browser environments improve on their own.
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Posted on: May 7, 2020 Last updated on: November 23, 2020 Comments: 8 Gilles Dubuc

Organizing and running a developer room at FOSDEM

For FOSDEM 2020, the Wikimedia Performance Team organized a Web Performance devroom. In this post, they share their experience.
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Posted on: April 27, 2020 Last updated on: October 26, 2020 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

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