Forum:Site speed improvements


 * We've been working for some time to improve the speed and responsiveness of Wikia hosted wikis and we think we've made some great gains. Please let us know what you think here. We look forward to discussing and answering your questions and comments. -- JSharp (talk) 18:28, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree that this is an important component of site speed, but probably the most important factor is compression (which is thankfully enabled on Wikia). Bandwidth is going to be the bottleneck for a lot of users for a long time to come. Good work on getting the worst-case down, though - helps keep the random page demographic happy. :-) --GreenReaper(talk) 18:59, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * There are actually a few places where compression is still off I think, working on fixing those. (Also off for IE 6 users for the Javascript due to bugs). It also helps keep logged in users happy since logged in users very rarely see a cached page :-) . Though I am hoping to fix that with ESI to some degree at least. The other thing we have done is that monaco now loads ads last. Crucially 19:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)