Um actually I meant folding the sections up in long articles in the default desktop version, not the "desktop" option on mobile
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:08 PM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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