Yes reducing page weight is important work. Glad to see progress. With
respect to "folding up" sections on desktop, how many people are using
desktop on mobile?
Might be good to have "folding up" as an option? When I travel gmail gives
me the option to load the low bandwidth version of their email service.
Could we do the same? Basically have two versions of the desktop version
depending connection speeds?
James
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Adele Vrana <avrana(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Huge congratulations to the team! I can't wait to
see the data and blogpost
on this. A cheaper Wikipedia mobile will go a long way to help us address
the data affordability barrier, attract new Wikipedia Zero partners and
bring in new readers.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting to see the drop in bytes sent to the
Japan article and this
makes me think we should "fold up" article sections on desktop too for
very
long articles, such as the Japan article. The
benefits for mobile are
obvious, but this may be beneficial for slow desktop connections as well.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:20 PM
Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images
To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
FYI after much experimentation, research and testing the mobile site has
been lazy loading images [1] since Thursday 18th August. This means if
you
do not see an image you will not download it. We
have taken care to
ensure
users without JavaScript can still view images
and that most users will
barely notice the difference.
We are currently crunching the data this change has made and we plan to
write a blog post to reporting the results.
In our experiments on Japanese Wikipedia we saw a drop in image bytes per
page view by 54% On the Japanese Japan article bytes shipped to users
dropped from 1.443 MB to 142 kB.
This is pretty huge since bytes equate to money [3] and we expect this to
be significant on wikis where mobile data is more expensive. In a
nutshell
Wikipedia mobile is cheaper.
As I said blog post to follow once we have more information, but please
report any bugs you are seeing with the implementation (we have already
found a few thanks to our community of editors).
~Jon
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/
Performance/Lazy_loading_images
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Lazy_loading_
of_images_on_Japanese_Wikipedia
[3]
https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/
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