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 <jane...@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 <jrob...@wikimedia.org> > Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:20 PM > Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images > To: mobile-l <mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers < > wikitec...@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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- *Adele Vrana* *Strategic Partnerships* Wikimedia Foundation +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 avr...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>