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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute

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Page metrics
Performance Score81
Total Page Transfer Size525.4 KB
Requests39
Timing metrics
TTFB [median]513 ms
First Paint [median]919 ms
Fully Loaded [median]2.013 s
Google Web Vitals
TTFB [median]513 ms
First Contentful Paint (FCP) [median]863 ms
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) [median]919 ms
Visual Metrics
First Visual Change [median]1.000 s
Speed Index [median]1.040 s
Visual Complete 85% [median]1.000 s
Visual Complete 99% [median]1.666 s
Last Visual Change [median]2.666 s
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Timings Summary

Metricminmedianmeanmax
Visual Metrics
FirstVisualChange966 ms1.000 s986 ms1.000 s
LastVisualChange2.566 s2.666 s2.653 s2.700 s
SpeedIndex1.006 s1.040 s1.030 s1.048 s
LargestImage966 ms1.000 s986 ms1.000 s
Heading1.466 s1.533 s1.533 s1.566 s
LargestContentfulPaint0 ms0 ms0 ms0 ms
LastMeaningfulPaint1.466 s1.533 s1.533 s1.566 s
VisualReadiness1.600 s1.666 s1.666 s1.700 s
VisualComplete85966 ms1.000 s986 ms1.000 s
VisualComplete951.000 s1.000 s1.160 s1.566 s
VisualComplete991.600 s1.666 s1.873 s2.566 s
Google Web Vitals
Time To First Byte (TTFB)496 ms513 ms507 ms516 ms
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)894 ms919 ms912 ms923 ms
First Contentful Paint (FCP)847 ms863 ms857 ms864 ms
More metrics
firstPaint894 ms919 ms911 ms923 ms
loadEventEnd1.393 s1.475 s1.463 s1.504 s
User Timing
mwStartup843 ms922 ms904 ms927 ms
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0.9 sDOM Content Loaded Time 863 msFirst Contentful Paint 864 ms
1 sLCP <DIV> 923 msmwStartup 927 msFirst Visual Change 1.000 sVisual Complete 85% 1.000 sVisual Complete 95% 1.000 sLargest Image 1.000 s
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1.6 sPage Load Time 1.504 sHeading 1.566 s
1.7 sVisual Complete 99% 1.666 s
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2.1 sFully Loaded 2.051 s
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2.7 sLast Visual Change 2.700 s
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The coach helps you find performance problems on your web page using web performance best practice rules. And gives you advice on privacy and best practices. Tested using Coach-core version 8.1.1.

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Performance advice (81)

TitleAdviceScore
Avoid slowing down the critical rendering path (avoidRenderBlocking)The style https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.discussionTools.init.styles%7Cext.dismissableSiteNotice.styles%7Cext.translate%7Cext.translate.edit.documentation.styles%7Cext.translate.tag.languages%7Cext.uls.pt%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cmediawiki.widgets.styles%7Coojs-ui-core.icons%2Cstyles%7Coojs-ui.styles.indicators%7Cskins.vector.icons%2Cstyles%7Cskins.vector.search.codex.styles%7Cwikibase.client.init&only=styles&skin=vector-2022 is larger than the magic number TCP window size 14.5 kB. Make the file smaller and the page will render faster. The page has 1 render blocking CSS request and 0 blocking JavaScript request inside of head.95
Description: The critical rendering path is what the browser needs to do to start rendering the page. Every file requested inside of the head element will postpone the rendering of the page, because the browser need to do the request. Avoid loading JavaScript synchronously inside of the head (you should not need JavaScript to render the page), request files from the same domain as the main document (to avoid DNS lookups) and inline CSS for really fast rendering and a short rendering path.
Offenders:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • Inline CSS for faster first render (inlineCss)The page has both inline CSS and CSS requests even though it uses a HTTP/2-ish connection. If you have many users on slow connections, it can be better to only inline the CSS. Run your own tests and check the waterfall graph to see what happens.95
    Description: In the early days of the Internet, inlining CSS was one of the ugliest things you can do. That has changed if you want your page to start rendering fast for your user. Always inline the critical CSS when you use HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 (avoid doing CSS requests that block rendering) and lazy load and cache the rest of the CSS. It is a little more complicated when using HTTP/2. Does your server support HTTP push? Then maybe that can help. Do you have a lot of users on a slow connection and are serving large chunks of HTML? Then it could be better to use the inline technique, becasue some servers always prioritize HTML content over CSS so the user needs to download the HTML first, before the CSS is downloaded.
    Avoid doing redirects (assetsRedirects)The page has 2 redirects. 1 of the redirects are from the base domain, please fix them! 1 request are from other domains, it could be 3rd-party assets doing unnecessary redirects. :(80
    Description: A redirect is one extra step for the user to download the asset. Avoid that if you want to be fast. Redirects are even more of a showstopper on mobile.
    Offenders:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=script&usesul3=0
  • https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/checkLoggedIn...gin/checkLoggedIn
  • Avoid extra requests by setting cache headers (cacheHeaders)The page has 14 requests that are missing a cache time. Configure a cache time so the browser doesn't need to download them every time. It will save 28.9 kB the next access.0
    Description: The easiest way to make your page fast is to avoid doing requests to the server. Setting a cache header on your server response will tell the browser that it doesn't need to download the asset again during the configured cache time! Always try to set a cache time if the content doesn't change for every request.
    Offenders:
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Plug-in_Noun_project_4...ject_4032.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Source_code_project_11...ject_1171.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Hammer_-_Noun_project_...ject_1306.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/OOjs_UI_icon_message.s...n_message.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/OOjs_UI_icon_book-ltr...._book-ltr.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/OOjs_UI_icon_language-...guage-ltr.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/OOjs_UI_icon_speechBub...bbles-ltr.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Vitruvian_Man_Noun_pro...ject_6674.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Community_Noun_project...ject_2280.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Learning_-_The_Noun_Pr...n_Project.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Icon_-_MediaWiki_Users...op_%282025%29.png
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=script&usesul3=0
  • https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/checkLoggedIn...gin/checkLoggedIn
  • https://auth.wikimedia.org/loginwiki/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/checkLoggedIn...gin/checkLoggedIn
  • Long cache headers is good (cacheHeadersLong)The page has 3 requests that have a shorter cache time than 30 days (but still a cache time).97
    Description: Setting a cache header is good. Setting a long cache header (at least 30 days) is even better beacause then it will stay long in the browser cache. But what do you do if that asset change? Rename it and the browser will pick up the new version.
    Offenders:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022
  • Total JavaScript size shouldn't be too big (javascriptSize)The total JavaScript transfer size is 409.7 kB. This is quite large. 50
    Description: A lot of JavaScript often means you are downloading more than you need. How complex is the page and what can the user do on the page? Do you use multiple JavaScript frameworks?
    Offenders:
    URLTransfer sizeContent size
    https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022 19.5 KB0 b
    https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php 17.2 KB0 b
    https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php 332.1 KB0 b
    https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php 2.8 KB0 b
    https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php 8.5 KB0 b
    https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php 18.6 KB0 b
    https://auth.wikimedia.org/loginwiki/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/checkLoggedIn...gin/checkLoggedIn 1.3 KB0 b
    Make each CSS response small (optimalCssSize)https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.discussionTools.init.styles%7Cext.dismissableSiteNotice.styles%7Cext.translate%7Cext.translate.edit.documentation.styles%7Cext.translate.tag.languages%7Cext.uls.pt%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cmediawiki.widgets.styles%7Coojs-ui-core.icons%2Cstyles%7Coojs-ui.styles.indicators%7Cskins.vector.icons%2Cstyles%7Cskins.vector.search.codex.styles%7Cwikibase.client.init&only=styles&skin=vector-2022 size is 35.5 kB (35526) and that is bigger than the limit of 14.5 kB. Try to make the CSS files fit into 14.5 KB.90
    Description: Make CSS responses small to fit into the magic number TCP window size of 14.5 KB. The browser can then download the CSS faster and that will make the page start rendering earlier.
    Offenders:
    URLTransfer sizeContent size
    https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php 34.7 KB0 b

    Best practice advice (66)

    TitleAdviceScore
    Cumulative Layout Shift (cumulativeLayoutShift)Layout Shift is not supported in this browser0
    Description: Cumulative Layout Shift measures the sum total of all individual layout shift scores for unexpected layout shift that occur. The metric is measuring visual stability by quantify how often users experience unexpected layout shifts. It is one of Google Web Vitals.
    Meta description (metaDescription)The page is missing a meta description.0
    Description: Use a page description to make the page more relevant to search engines.
    Do not send too long headers (longHeaders)https://www.mediawik...How_to_contribute has a header content-security-policy-report-only that is 1416 characters long. https://www.mediawik...ki.org/w/load.php has a header sourcemap that is 1088 characters long. 98
    Description: Do not send response headers that are too long.
    Offenders:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • Avoid too many third party requests (thirdParty)The page do 33% requests to third party domains (13 requests and 27.8 kB). First party is 26 requests and 510.2 kB. The regex .*mediawiki.* was used to calculate first/third party requests.50
    Description: Do not load most of your content from third party URLs.
    Avoid unnecessary headers (unnecessaryHeaders)There are 24 responses that sets both a max-age and expires header. There are 39 responses that sets a server header. 37
    Description: Do not send headers that you don't need. We look for p3p, cache-control and max-age, pragma, server and x-frame-options headers. Have a look at Andrew Betts - Headers for Hackers talk as a guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k92ZbrY815c or read https://www.fastly.com/blog/headers-we-dont-want.
    Offenders:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/static/images/icons/mediawikiwiki.svg
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/static/images/icons/mediawikiwiki.svg
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/static/images/mobile/copyright/mediawikiwiki-wordmark.svg
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/static/images/mobile/copyright/mediawikiwiki-wordmark.svg
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Plug-in_Noun_project_4...ject_4032.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Source_code_project_11...ject_1171.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Hammer_-_Noun_project_...ject_1306.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/OOjs_UI_icon_message.s...n_message.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/OOjs_UI_icon_book-ltr...._book-ltr.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/OOjs_UI_icon_language-...guage-ltr.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/OOjs_UI_icon_speechBub...bbles-ltr.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Vitruvian_Man_Noun_pro...ject_6674.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Community_Noun_project...ject_2280.svg.png
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Learning_-_The_Noun_Pr...n_Project.svg.png
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Icon_-_MediaWiki_Users...op_%282025%29.png
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/static/apple-touch/mediawiki.png
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/static/apple-touch/mediawiki.png
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/static/favicon/mediawiki.ico
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/static/favicon/mediawiki.ico
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=script&usesul3=0
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/load.php...ki.org/w/load.php
  • https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/checkLoggedIn...gin/checkLoggedIn
  • https://auth.wikimedia.org/loginwiki/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/checkLoggedIn...gin/checkLoggedIn
  • Privacy advice (82)

    TitleAdviceScore
    Use a good Content-Security-Policy header to make sure you you avoid Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. (contentSecurityPolicyHeader)Set a Content-Security-Policy header to make sure you are not open for Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. You can start with setting a Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header, that will only report the violation, not stop the download.0
    Description: Content Security Policy is delivered via a HTTP response header, and defines approved sources of content that the browser may load. It can be an effective countermeasure to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks and is also widely supported and usually easily deployed. https://scotthelme.co.uk/content-security-policy-an-introduction/.
    Offenders:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
  • Set a referrer-policy header to make sure you do not leak user information. (referrerPolicyHeader)Set a referrer-policy header to make sure you do not leak user information.0
    Description: Referrer Policy is a new header that allows a site to control how much information the browser includes with navigations away from a document and should be set by all sites. https://scotthelme.co.uk/a-new-security-header-referrer-policy/.
    Offenders:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
  • Avoid third party cookies that is used to track the user. (thirdPartyCookies)The page sets 1 third party cookie.0
    Description: Third party cookies are used to track the user. They are automatically blocked in Safari and Firefox.
    Offenders:
  • .wikimedia.org NetworkProbeLimit=0.001
  • Page info

    Page info
    TitleHow to contribute - MediaWiki
    GeneratorMediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.23
    Width1920
    Height3683
    DOM elements1052
    Avg DOM depth12
    Max DOM depth20
    Iframes0
    Script tags6
    Local storage1.1 MB
    Session storage0 b
    Network Information APIunknown
    Resource Hints
    dns-prefetch
    https://meta.wikimedia.org/
    https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/auth.wikimedia.org
    preconnect
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/

    Technologies used to build the page.

    Data collected using Wappalyzer version 6.10.66. With updated code from Webappanalyzer 2024-12-27. Use --browsertime.firefox.includeResponseBodies htmlor --browsertime.chrome.includeResponseBodies htmlto help Wappalyzer find more information about technologies used.

    TechnologyConfidenceCategory
    MediaWiki 100  Wikis
    PHP 100  Programming languages
    HSTS 100  Security
    HTTP/2 100  Miscellaneous
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    Data from run 3

    Visual Metrics

    Visual Metrics
    First Visual Change1.000 s
    Speed Index1.040 s
    Largest Image1.000 s
    Heading1.566 s
    LargestContentfulPaint0 ms
    Last Meaningful Paint1.566 s
    Visual Complete 85%1.000 s
    Visual Complete 95%1.000 s
    Visual Complete 99%1.666 s
    Last Visual Change2.700 s
    Visual Readiness1.700 s

    Browser Metrics

    Largest Contentful Paint

    When in time the page main content is rendered (collected using the Largest Contentful Paint API). Read more about Largest Contentful Paint.

    Element typeDIV
    Element/tag<div class="tech-header-intro"></div>
    Render time 923 ms
    Element render delay407 ms
    TTFB516 ms
    Resource delay0 ms
    Resource load duration0 ms
    Load time0 ms
    Size (width*height)21074
    DOM path
    div:eq(1) > div > div:eq(2) > main#content > div#bodyContent > div#mw-content-text > div:eq(1) > div:eq(1) > div:eq(1)> div:eq(1) > div > div:eq(2) > main#content > div#bodyContent > div#mw-content-text > div:eq(1) > div:eq(1) > div:eq(1)>
    LCP

    The largest contentful paint is highlighted in the image. If no element is highlighted the element was removed before the screenshot or the LCP API couldn't find the element.

    Server timings

    namedurationdescription
    cache0hit-front
    host0cp3067

    Custom metrics collected through JavaScript

    There are no custom configured scripts.

    Extra metrics collected using scripting

    There are no custom extra metrics from scripting.

    Visual Elements

    NameDisplay TimeX YWidthHeight
    LargestImage (mediawikiwiki.svg)1.000 s 254 8 50 50
    <img class="mw-logo-icon" src="/static/images/icons/mediawikiwiki.svg" alt="" aria-hidden="true" height="50" width="50">
    Heading1.566 s 350 193 948 40
    <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"></h1>
    LargestContentfulPaint 366 903 916 258
    <div class="tech-header-intro"></div>
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    PageXray

    How the page is built.

    Summary
    HTTP versionHTTP/2.0
    Total requests39
    Total domains4
    Total transfer size525.4 KB
    Total content size0 b
    Responses missing compression0
    Number of cookies3
    Third party cookies1
    Requests per response code
    20037
    3022

    Largest assets on the page (by transfer size)

    Requests and sizes per content type

    ContentHeader SizeTransfer SizeContent SizeRequests
    html2.8 KB26.0 KB0 b1
    css1.9 KB36.2 KB0 b2
    javascript8.6 KB400.1 KB0 b7
    image12.4 KB32.3 KB0 b12
    svg13.9 KB20.1 KB0 b14
    favicon960 B8.4 KB0 b1
    Total40.5 KB523.1 KB0 b37

    Data per domain

    DomainTotal download timeTransfer SizeContent SizeRequests
    www.mediawiki.org4.380 s498.2 KB0 b26
    upload.wikimedia.org5.658 s24.6 KB0 b11
    login.wikimedia.org207 ms1.3 KB0 b1
    auth.wikimedia.org205 ms1.3 KB0 b1

    Expires and last modified statistics

    typeminmedianmax
    Expires0 seconds4 weeks1 year
    Last modified14 minutes37 weeks2 years

    CPU