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Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó

We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%.
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Posted on: January 16, 2024 Last updated on: November 11, 2024 Derick Alangi and Timo Tijhof

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?
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Posted on: June 8, 2023 Last updated on: November 11, 2024 Timo Tijhof

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.
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Posted on: May 8, 2023 Last updated on: November 11, 2024 Aaron Schulz and Timo Tijhof
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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
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Posted on: February 24, 2023 Last updated on: February 24, 2023 Comments: 11 Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson and Nazia Tasnim

Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2020

Looking back at our ups and downs, including FOSDEM and Mobile Device Lab.
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Posted on: December 20, 2022 Last updated on: November 11, 2024 Timo Tijhof

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.
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Posted on: December 19, 2022 Last updated on: January 13, 2025 Timo Tijhof

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.
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Posted on: December 16, 2022 Last updated on: January 13, 2025 Timo Tijhof

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…
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Posted on: December 15, 2022 Last updated on: November 11, 2024 Timo Tijhof
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Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016

Looking back at our ups and downs. Including HTTP/2 deployment, metric collection improvements, and the begining of our journey to Thumbor.
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Posted on: December 8, 2022 Last updated on: January 13, 2025 Timo Tijhof and Aaron Schulz

Web Perf Hero: Valentín Gutierrez

Today we celebrate two numbers: 25% lower latency for ATS backend requests at the p75, and up to 1000X reduction of ATS disk read latency at the p999.
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Posted on: November 21, 2022 Last updated on: November 11, 2024 Timo Tijhof
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