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Web Perf Hero: Thiemo Kreuz

From optimizing the MediaWiki stack on Wikipedia.org, to speeding up CI; Thiemo’s work benefits us every day!

How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.

We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%.

The new “Excimer UI” option in WikimediaDebug generates flame graphs. What are flame graphs, and when do you need this?

Learn why we transitioned the MediaWiki platform to serve traffic from multiple data centers, and the challenges we faced along the way.

Looking back at our ups and downs, including FOSDEM and Mobile Device Lab.

Looking back at our ups and downs. Joining the W3C, implementing Paint Timing in upstream WebKit, and researching perceived performance.

Looking back at our ups and downs. Including a literature review, multi-DC prep, and a new data center in Singapore.

Reduce Wikipedia’s time-to-logo Thanks to the new Preload web standard developed by the W3C WebPerf working group, we were able…

Looking back at our ups and downs. Including HTTP/2 deployment, metric collection improvements, and the begining of our journey to Thumbor.