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.
Tag: web performance (page 3)
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.
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.
Looking back: improvements to edit save time
Is it faster to save articles on Wikipedia than it was a year ago?
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.