Great job team On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > > Earlier this morning, we made some good progress towards a faster > VisualEditor experience by loading the HTML from > https://rest.wikimedia.org/, the REST content API that entered beta > production a bit over a week ago [1]. Preliminary data shows a drop of mean > client HTML load times by close to 40% from about 1.9 seconds to 1.2 > seconds. > > > The reasons for this speed-up are primarily > > > a reduction in HTML size by 30-40%, achieved by storing page metadata > separately in RESTBase [2], and > > storing (rather than caching) the HTML of all Wikipedia articles, thus > eliminating expensive cache misses. > > > So far we have enabled this optimization on all Wikipedias. Other projects > with VisualEditor support will follow over the next week. There are also a > lot more optimizations in the pipeline. Eventually, we hope to completely > eliminate the need to re-load the page for editing by using the same > Parsoid-generated HTML for regular page views. > > > While many people helped to make RESTBase and the content API a reality (see > the original announcement [1]), I want to specially call out Marko Obrovac > for doing much of the integration work with MediaWiki and the VisualEditor > extension. > > > I hope that you enjoy the newly faster VisualEditor experience as much as we > do! > > > Sincerely -- > > > Gabriel Wicke > > > Principal Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation > > > [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-March/081135.html > > [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >
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