On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:12 PM, DanTMan <dan_the_man(a)telus.net> wrote:
Well, whether or not we minify wikibits.js the system
is going to
support minification, because if it doesn't there will be load issues
when you start including the big libraries like YUI.
You are not going to overload Wikimedia's bandwidth serving CSS and JS
files. The question is more one of responsiveness.
Oh ya... and as for cache:
http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/04/performance-research-part-2/
"40-60% of Yahoo!'s users have an empty cache experience and ~20% of all
page views are done with an empty cache. ... It says that even if your
assets are optimized for maximum caching, there are a significant number
of users that will /always/ have an empty cache."
While that was targeted at Yahoo!, that fact could easily apply
elsewhere. Especially with how many different people visit wiki.
The figure is somewhat lower for Wikipedia, if I remember correctly
(more obsessive browsing, less one-shot search). It's still at least
20%, I think. I don't have the figures on hand.