845565 - "CDN-ise" wiki.mozilla.org (static assets like the theme, JS, fonts, perhaps?) to help increase performance

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130226_X5_Y0F/

Wiki can sometimes be *painfully* slow (30 seconds to finish loading, in the above run).

We should CDN-ise some of the static assets (at least the theme, maybe the JS/fonts?)

Comment 1

[Alison Wheeler [:AlisonW]]

The theme and JS are both created 'on the fly' from the wiki contents themselves - and each individual user can override them with personal css and js too - so they aren't actually 'static. So far as fonts are concerned is there a particular one which the wiki is demanding but is not a standard on your platform?

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to Alison Wheeler (AlisonW) from comment #1)
> The theme and JS are both created 'on the fly' from the wiki contents
> themselves - and each individual user can override them with personal css
> and js too - so they aren't actually 'static. So far as fonts are concerned
> is there a particular one which the wiki is demanding but is not a standard
> on your platform?

No idea, sorry.

Comment 3

[Alison Wheeler [:AlisonW]]

fine ;-)

Looking at the page creation times of a few sample pages (you can see how long it took at the end of the source) they seem to be reasonable at around 0.2s or so. This is typical (cf a wikipedia or mediawiki page) so it may just be a transmission or browser delay. I'll keep an eye on the generation times in case it does get worse.

Comment 4

[Alison Wheeler [:AlisonW]]

I'm going to close this on the grounds that wiki.m.o is insufficiently static (over all users) to utilise a CDN sensibly; as noted above, each user can change the css and js code at any time for themselves thus to attempt to 'code in' use of a CDN would likely slow down the page presentation rather than speed it up.