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Category: Wikimedia Performance (page 3)

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.
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Posted on: June 22, 2018 Last updated on: September 10, 2020 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

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.
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Posted on: February 22, 2018 Last updated on: September 10, 2020 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

Measuring Wikipedia page load times

Here is how we measure and interpret load times on Wikipedia. Let’s also look at what real-user metrics are, and how percentiles work.
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Posted on: January 9, 2018 Last updated on: December 30, 2020 Comments: 1 Timo Tijhof

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.
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Posted on: November 20, 2017 Last updated on: February 22, 2022 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

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.
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Posted on: November 17, 2017 Last updated on: February 22, 2022 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

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.
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Posted on: July 7, 2017 Last updated on: September 10, 2020 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

The journey to Thumbor, part 1: rationale

Making Thumbor production-ready for Wikimedia is a journey that started a year and a half ago. Let’s look at the rationale for this project.
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Posted on: June 20, 2017 Last updated on: February 22, 2022 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

Looking back: improvements to edit save time

Is it faster to save articles on Wikipedia than it was a year ago?
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Posted on: June 12, 2017 Last updated on: September 10, 2020 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

Investigating a performance improvement

When a performance improvement seems too good to be true, it’s time to investigate in depth and find out what happened.
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Posted on: June 2, 2017 Last updated on: September 10, 2020 Comments: 0 Gilles Dubuc

How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast

Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
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Posted on: December 29, 2014 Last updated on: November 23, 2021 Comments: 0 Ori Livneh
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