Wikimedia Unifies Mobile and Desktop Domains for 20% Faster Mobile Performance
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Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation technical team describes their successful migration to unified mobile and desktop domains, eliminating the separate mobile subdomain (m.wikipedia.org) that had been in place since 2011. The change resulted in 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO by eliminating redirects, and reduced infrastructure load. The technical implementation involved server-side changes to serve appropriate mobile or desktop versions from the same domain based on user agent detection.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledUntil now, when you visited a wiki (like en.wikipedia.org), the server responded in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to the equivalent mobile URL (like en.m.wikipedia.org).
Our servers have operated this way since 2011, when we deployed MobileFrontend.
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
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