Change Details

While working T395698 I noticed that Wikidata has considerably more assets than any other project for an anonymous user. I imagine this will lead to lower SEO penalties, sluggish browser experiences and slower page loads for our users so we should look to optimize this as much as possible. **Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable): * Visit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1 in an incognito window * Check network tab * Compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page **What happens?**: * Wikidata loads 233kb of uncompressed CSS (compared with 183kb on en.wikipedia.org) * Wikidata loads 1,437 kB of uncompressed JS (compared with 365kb on en.wikipedia.org) **What should have happened instead?**: The biggest offenders seem to be the use of Vue.js AND OOUI on page load. **Software version** (on `Special:Version` page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia): **Other information** (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

While working T395698 I noticed that Wikidata has considerably more assets than any other project for an anonymous user. I imagine this will lead to lower SEO penalties, sluggish browser experiences and slower page loads for our users so we should look to optimize this as much as possible. **Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable): * Visit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1 in an incognito window * Check network tab * Compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page **What happens?**: * Wikidata loads 233kb of uncompressed CSS (compared with 183kb on en.wikipedia.org) * Wikidata loads 1,437 kB of uncompressed JS (compared with 365kb on en.wikipedia.org, 140kb of which is jQuery) **What should have happened instead?**: The biggest offenders seem to be the use of Vue.js AND OOUI on page load. **Software version** (on `Special:Version` page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia): **Other information** (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

While working T395698 I noticed that Wikidata has considerably more assets than any other project for an anonymous user. I imagine this will lead to lower SEO penalties, sluggish browser experiences and slower page loads for our users so we should look to optimize this as much as possible. **Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable): * Visit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1 in an incognito window * Check network tab * Compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page **What happens?**: * Wikidata loads 233kb of uncompressed CSS (compared with 183kb on en.wikipedia.org) * Wikidata loads 1,437 kB of uncompressed JS (compared with 365kb on en.wikipedia.org, 140kb of which is jQuery) **What should have happened instead?**: The biggest offenders seem to be the use of Vue.js AND OOUI on page load. **Software version** (on `Special:Version` page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia): **Other information** (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):