On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
I was looking at the page sizes, and noticed that the
wikipedia.ico<http://bits.wikimedia.org/favicon/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 <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.firefox.firebug/9253>
bugs <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110449>, so it
might have been overlooked in our site performance review.
Can we shrink it somehow? Or is there a reason to keep it as is?
I tried shrinking it with GIMP to 4bit - and got a 5x reduction. There are
some color changes, but I don't know much about images, so possibly some
pixel hunting by a designer is needed. Also, I tried 4bit+PNG option, which
might not be supported by every browser, especially some mobile ones, and
it got me an extra 569 bytes (21%)
Lastly, do we really need 3 different sizes - 16,32,64? Can we do 16 & 64?
So I don't know if all three sizes are really required for this, but on
both Android and iOS remember that users can and do save a bookmark to
their home screens which links to the mobile site. The current version was
definitely designed with that use case in mind.
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 volunteer. He's at
munaf.assaf(a)gmail.com.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/