Hello, 2010/6/15 Magnus Manske <[email protected]>: >> >> I am now surfing most of time with a 3G key with a bandwidth of 16 >> KB/s maximum, and often less. >> My experience of Wikimedia sites compared with the other websites I am >> using regularly, GMail and Facebook, >> shows that these load much faster than Wikimedia pages, even if the >> page is mostly empty. >> It seems that these sites use some fancy caching for that. >> >> Page weight is a major hurdle for working on any Wikimedia sites >> affecting users who do not enjoy a broadband connection. >> And I believe that small wikis with non-European languages are more >> affected than others (a study would be interesting here). >> For improving outreach of Wikimedia outside of the Western world, >> improving the page weight should be a priority. >> >> What can be done? > > I notice that, when comparing logged-in to logged-out page loading > times, the former is almost twice the latter. This appears to be true > whether I refresh the browser cache or not (tested on Main Page). > > A light, JavaScript-free skin for low-bandwidth use might be an > intermediate measure. > > Magnus
It seems Gmail and Facebook use a lot of Javascript, isn't it? Yann _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
