On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Gilles Dubuc <gilles(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Any practical recommendations for addressing this concern?
Can the users who've been complaining about speed be contacted? That would
allow us to verify whether the bad experience is consistent for them, we
could measure it directly and even compare it to their general internet
speed.
I started a separate thread about that; will also reach out to the users on
hu.wiki. Asking for email addresses in the survey would also be good, but
we should check if it has legal implications (collecting private data can
be, especially in the EU, a painful process).
And let's not forget that the status quo (opening
the File: page) might be
just as slow for those people. They might just not realize it, because most
of the time spent loading that page shows you a blank tab. Now that the
"versus" test has been running on cloudbees for a couple of days, targeting
mediawiki.org, we can see that the file page is slower on average:
http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/mmv#media_viewer_vs_file_p…
wasn't the case a couple of weeks back, but we've made a number of
improvements since.
According to those stats, MediaViewer with a warm JS cache beats the file
page 2 to 1. That's pretty impressive!
Are the stats reliable though? There is a huge jump a few days ago, even in
the file page loading times. Is that when it was switched over to Cloudbees?