Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
Tag: MediaWiki
APIs as a product: Investing in the current and next generation of technical contributors
Wikipedia is coming up on its 25th birthday, and that would not have been possible without the Wikimedia technical volunteer…
Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó
We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%.
Flame graphs arrive in WikimediaDebug
The new “Excimer UI” option in WikimediaDebug generates flame graphs. What are flame graphs, and when do you need this?
Around the world: How Wikipedia became a multi-datacenter deployment
Learn why we transitioned the MediaWiki platform to serve traffic from multiple data centers, and the challenges we faced along the way.
From hell to HTML: releasing a Python package to easily work with Wikimedia HTML dumps
Announcing mwparserfromhtml, a new library that makes it easy to parse the HTML content of Wikipedia articles
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2020
Looking back at our ups and downs, including FOSDEM and Mobile Device Lab.
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2019
Looking back at our ups and downs. Including joining the W3C, implementing Paint Timing in upstream WebKit, and research on perceived performance.
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2018
Looking back at our ups and downs. Including a literature review, multi-DC prep, and a new ata center in Singapore.
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2017
Reduce Wikipedia’s time-to-logo Thanks to the new Preload web standard developed by the W3C WebPerf working group, we were able…