It is great to see this in production, congratulations to the team. On Wednesday, August 24, 2016, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoops, I missed the link. https://www.mediawiki.org/ > wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Performance/Lazy_loading_images. Thanks for > working on this. > > Pine > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wiki.p...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> Good to hear. Does this also mean that pages load faster? >> >> Pine >> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jrob...@wikimedia.org');>> wrote: >> >>> FYI after much experimentation, research and testing the mobile site has >>> been lazy loading images [1] since Thursday 18th August. This means if you >>> do not see an image you will not download it. We have taken care to ensure >>> users without JavaScript can still view images and that most users will >>> barely notice the difference. >>> >>> We are currently crunching the data this change has made and we plan to >>> write a blog post to reporting the results. >>> >>> In our experiments on Japanese Wikipedia we saw a drop in image bytes >>> per page view by 54% On the Japanese Japan article bytes shipped to users >>> dropped from 1.443 MB to 142 kB. >>> >>> This is pretty huge since bytes equate to money [3] and we expect this >>> to be significant on wikis where mobile data is more expensive. In a >>> nutshell Wikipedia mobile is cheaper. >>> >>> As I said blog post to follow once we have more information, but please >>> report any bugs you are seeing with the implementation (we have already >>> found a few thanks to our community of editors). >>> >>> ~Jon >>> >>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Performa >>> nce/Lazy_loading_images >>> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Lazy_loading_ >>> of_images_on_Japanese_Wikipedia >>> [3] https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org');> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >>> >> > -- Katherine Maher Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 +1 (415) 712 4873 kma...@wikimedia.org
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