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Prefetch DNS for restbase.wikimedia.org
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Add <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//restbase.wikimedia.org"> to the <head> element of Wikimedia MediaWiki pages.

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ori created this task.Apr 2 2015, 12:16 AM
ori raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
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• GWicke subscribed.EditedApr 2 2015, 12:32 AM

I think we we'll gain a lot more cold-start performance by proxying directly from the main domain, for example at /api/v1/. This will also share the same established connection (possibly SPDY), and save the expensive TLS setup.

Here is a break-down of timings from a cold-start VE load (the MW.org RESTBase page):

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Edit: Now tracked in T95229.

• GWicke mentioned this in T95229: Set up an API base path for REST and action APIs.Apr 6 2015, 8:44 PM
faidon added a parent task: T92864: Investigate the use of DNS prefetching for reducing page load time..Apr 6 2015, 11:51 PM
ori mentioned this in rEVEDc741db537832: Pre-fetch RESTBase DNS and negotiate TLS.Apr 9 2015, 7:07 PM
Jdforrester-WMF subscribed.Apr 9 2015, 10:20 PM
ori mentioned this in rEVED78c63ba2bafa: Pre-fetch RESTBase DNS and negotiate TLS.Apr 14 2015, 10:20 PM
ori mentioned this in rEVED9cdc575275d9: Pre-fetch RESTBase DNS and negotiate TLS.
Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Apr 14 2015, 11:52 PM
Jdforrester-WMF assigned this task to ori.
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Jdforrester-WMF added projects: WMF-deploy-2015-04-15_(1.26wmf2), WMF-deploy-2015-04-08_(1.26wmf1), WMF-deploy-2015-04-01_(1.25wmf24), VisualEditor 2014/15 Q4 blockers.
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Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Nominated to Done on the VisualEditor 2014/15 Q4 blockers board.Apr 15 2015, 12:09 AM
Krinkle mentioned this in T133001: Decom legacy ex-parsoidcache cxserver, citoid, and restbase service hostnames.May 9 2016, 8:16 PM
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