Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-20 Thread Ori Livneh
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > Also, there seems to be a problem with the server -- the icon is not > being gziped in response: > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > The server's probably no

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-20 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Also, there seems to be a problem with the server -- the icon is not being gziped in response: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > The server's probably not configured to gzip .ico files by default, so that's not a huge

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Steven Walling, 12/02/2014 23:35: Munaf Assaf, who used to be a designer with us, is the one responsible for the most recent redesign that resulted in this look. He is still local and would probably be happy to explain the sizing choices and other parts, and maybe help work on any revisions as a

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-13 Thread Daniel Zahn
fwiw, there was an IRC discussion related to the favicons and their sizes, and it turned out that for IE9/MS one should have this: Recommended16x16, 32x32, 48x48 Optimal16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 64x64 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg491740%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > I was looking at the page sizes, and noticed that the > wikipedia.ico file > is 15KB, which is about 14% of the average m. page size. Unfortunatelly, > this download is not reported by eithe

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-11 Thread Brion Vibber
Instead of guessing, let's find out -- it should be easy enough to wipe browser state and test while connected through a computer running WireShark. :) The server's probably not configured to gzip .ico files by default, so that's not a huge surprise, but would likely be an easy configuration tweak

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-11 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
FYI, a good ICO optimization article from 2 years ago: http://zoompf.com/blog/2012/04/instagram-and-optimizing-favicons Brion, it showed up in my history tab - I don't know when that got populated, but i am guessing at the same time as i went to the site, because otherwise it wouldn't have shown a

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-11 Thread Brion Vibber
IIRC they were recently bumped to improve appearance on high-density displays etc (hence the 32x32 and 64x64 sizes) yes. If we can reduce the file size without dumping the larger sizes that'd be nice. Not sure how badly we really need the 32x32 if we have 64x64, that's true -- brion On Tue,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-11 Thread Daniel Zahn
Didn't a volunteer from a Google project recently work on all the favicons and make them nicer? ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-11 Thread Brion Vibber
Is it actually fetched by actual mobile browsers? Does it block loads, is it in the background, or does it happen at time of bookmarking? Does it happen once ever, or over and over again? -- brion On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > I was looking at the page sizes, and noti

[WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-11 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
I was looking at the page sizes, and noticed that the wikipedia.ico file is 15KB, which is about 14% of the average m. page size. Unfortunatelly, this download is not reported by either firefox or chrome dev tools due to know