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 <avr...@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 <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> > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com _______________________________________________ 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>
