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Redesign compression of content inside NGINX and Varnish
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Currently, content is only compressed by the cache proxies for transmit to the end user. There is no compression between varnish and the MediaWiki servers.

While compression uses CPU cycles, it does improve response times by a huge margin, especially for cache proxies located outside the Benelux. It's worth evaluating compression for:

  • Traffic between Varnish and MediaWiki
  • Storing objects compressed in Varnish cache

And while we're at it: https://medium.com/oyotech/how-brotli-compression-gave-us-37-latency-improvement-14d41e50fee4 possible replace gzip with brotli for various resources?

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Southparkfan triaged this task as Normal priority.Mar 10 2019, 21:53
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Southparkfan lowered the priority of this task from Normal to Low.May 12 2020, 17:33
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T4302 - if that task gets declined in the future then this task would need re-opening.