Ryan Lomonaco <wiki.ral...@...> writes: > 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? > Next week, work will start on a project called the "Resource Loader" (formerly known as script loader or maybe as part of JS2) that will optimize loading of resources like CSS and JavaScript. In particular, that means we'll no longer throw more than 100 KB of JS+CSS in your face then decide you're on an old unsupported browser and not use any of it.
As I said, work on this resource loader has yet to get started, so it'll take some time to be finished and used in production; I can't really say when that will be, but rest assured that an elegant permanent solution is in the works. As for permanent solutions: I've delayed loading the JS for jQuery UI with a dirty hack; this saves a good 10% off of the initial JS load, IIRC. This was done to stop old versions of Netscape from crashing, but it helps reduce the initial page load JS size as well. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
