Hi everyone, I'd like to announce my new extension QuickInstantCommons [1]. Basically it is a version of InstantCommons, except fast.
I used [[List_of_governors_general_of_Canada]] as a test page (85 images) with caching disabled. Initial results were very promising: * Vanilla MediaWiki: 1038.2 seconds (17 minutes) * This extension (when it isn't able to prefetch): 18.5 seconds (56 times as fast) * This extension (when it is able to prefetch): 1.1 seconds (943 times as fast) Also it supports thumbnailing files even if you're missing the media handler extension for the format in question (but only in a limited way). So for example, you can still see SLA files, even if you don't have Extension:3D installed (but the interactive features don't work). It does a bunch of things to speed things up - but the primary things are: * Use HTTP/2 * Avoid unnecessary HTTP requests * Attempt to guess what images will be used on the page based on the previous version of the page, and prefetch those images. If you're currently using InstantCommons/ForeignAPIRepo, consider trying the new extension out and let me know what you think! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuickInstantCommons -- Brian p.s. I hope extension announcements are on topic here. I've seen other people do them from time to time, but not in a while.
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