On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I keep hearing those excuses for performance problems, Jeremy. It
> takes longer to serve up the original page here in North America on a fast
> connection - enough so that it is noticeable on a normal computer.

I don't know what that means. ("Original page"? does that mean it loads faster with a redirect than by hitting the canonical URL directly?)

Please provide enough details (steps, recipe, instructions, whatever you want to call it) so that someone else could repeat your experiment to verify your results.

Ideally we'd do that for both logged in and logged out users (and various combinations of prefs) but in the case of redirects for Shirley Temple Black and Chelsea Manning I think we mostly care about logged out users visiting the /wiki/${title} style URLs (so not people visiting &uselang= or &useskin= URLs) so let's focus on those. Which case were you testing?

-Jeremy