[Wikitech-l] Are you doing something that slows Wikipedia down?

2012-08-03 Thread Steven Walling
A somewhat cheeky subject line, I know, but I wanted to get people's attention. Let me explain: My team's job is to run experiments that tell us why Wikipedia editors stay or leave.[1] One of the conclusions we've come to is that we have zero data on how site performance impacts editor retention

Re: [Wikitech-l] Are you doing something that slows Wikipedia down?

2012-08-03 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
I'm not sure if it's really needed to find out *if* site speed influences visits. They do, and they are very heavily influenced by site speed. Effects of Website Speed on Revenue Experience - Shopzilla increased page load time from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds and increased revenue by 12%

Re: [Wikitech-l] Are you doing something that slows Wikipedia down?

2012-08-03 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm not sure if it's really needed to find out *if* site speed influences visits. They do, and they are very heavily influenced by site speed. Yeah, to be clear here: what I'm asking is not if. It's how