User blog comment:Wade Warren/How we deliver pages to you/@comment-166269-20120227194732/@comment-3475413-20120228002038

Yes, the Yu-Gi-Oh! community is one of our favorite SMW users. You keep us on our toes and although you may not realize it, the things we do to make the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki work help make the rest of the site fast for all our users. The SSDs make a big difference but a lot of the credit goes to our mysql team who work tirelessly to extract every bit of performance possible out of our databases.

Editors and logged-in users on Wikia bypass most of the cache. This is to make sure they're seeing the most recent version of the document they're editing. We're working to improve how we cache "static" elements on the page to improve performance for editors and logged-in users as well. Right now that's the slowest part of our service and I want to make our editor's experience as good as our readers.