just loaded in 2
seconds. Team is on fire. don't put them out.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Awesome! That is a truly significant improvement and
quite an achievement.
High-fives all around :D
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello all,
Earlier this morning, we made some good progress towards a faster
VisualEditor experience by loading the HTML from
https://rest.wikimedia.org/, the REST content API that entered beta
production a bit over a week ago [1]. Preliminary data shows a drop of mean
client HTML load times by close to 40% from about 1.9 seconds to 1.2
seconds.
The reasons for this speed-up are primarily
-
a reduction in HTML size by 30-40%, achieved by storing page metadata
separately in RESTBase [2], and
-
storing (rather than caching) the HTML of all Wikipedia articles,
thus eliminating expensive cache misses.
So far we have enabled this optimization on all Wikipedias. Other
projects with VisualEditor support will follow over the next week. There
are also a lot more optimizations in the pipeline. Eventually, we hope to
completely eliminate the need to re-load the page for editing by using the
same Parsoid-generated HTML for regular page views.
While many people helped to make RESTBase and the content API a reality
(see the original announcement [1]), I want to specially call out Marko
Obrovac for doing much of the integration work with MediaWiki and the
VisualEditor extension.
I hope that you enjoy the newly faster VisualEditor experience as much as
we do!
Sincerely --
Gabriel Wicke
Principal Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
[1]:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-March/081135.html
[2]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase
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