On Friday, October 25, 2013, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:20:41 +0200, Matthew Flaschen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>  This is is very interesting.  It seems like we should be able to pull
>> that 1.3 MB down a bit (I don't think that takes into account gzip, but I'm
>> not sure).  jquery.ui would be a start (it's not actually used on the main
>> page, but it's loaded).  See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**
>> org/show_bug.cgi?id=55550<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55550>
>>
>
> Out of that 1.3 MB, ULS fonts contribute to almost a megabyte (search the
> waterfall for 'amiri'). How was it ever considered acceptable to deploy
> this is beyond me.


This will be reduced drastically in our upcoming deployment[1]. The fonts
were used for displaying Arabic written on the page. Using a complete font
for language autonyms is not a good idea considering the bandwidth, but
without compromising on readability of our large number of supported
languages, a subset font is going to be applied with less than 50KB size.
More at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UniversalLanguageSelector/AutonymFont

[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf1#UniversalLanguageSelector
 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap Already
available at MediaWiki.org; testwiki; test2wiki; testwikidatawiki; loginwiki


Thanks
Santhosh
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