Prior related work: T222078: Analyze readers' engagement in countries affected by Singapore Data Center's switch
We need to calibrate expectations for WE 2.4 key result:
This KR focuses on improving web-site performance in an under-served region. Research suggests that a significant and noticeable reduction in web site response time improves user engagement. As part of this KR, we will improve web site response times in South America, e.g. by deploying an additional cache site in the region. Although we anticipate the first significant impact to be measurable in Brazil by the end of the fiscal year, the entire region is expected to see significant performance benefits shortly after.
For that, we need to look at how unique devices (the core metric for Relevance) were affected regionally by the launch of:
- DRMRS (https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/07/15/building-dreamers-how-and-why-we-opened-a-datacenter-in-france/)
- Singapore data center; T222078 identified a lift as result of the data center but we need to estimate the impact
... and use that to provide rough estimates of impact we might expect to see in Latin America.
Timeline: Maryana & Selena would need numbers by August