Unifying our mobile and desktop domains

How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load. How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load. Until 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). This mobile URL in turn served the mobile version of the page from MediaWiki. Our servers have operated this way since 2011, when we deployed MobileFrontend. Diagram of technical change. Over the past two months we unified the mobile and desktop domain for all wikis (timeline). This means we no longer redirect mobile users to a separate domain while the page is loading. We completed the change on Wednesday 8…

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