Timeline for MathJax (LaTeX equations) for RPG.SE and Statistics Posts
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:29 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 2, 2016 at 21:39 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | Since it turns out my hesitations and caution about server- and client-side performance were totally misplaced, as seen by MathJax deployment for other sites like Worldbuilding, I've cut down each section into a single declarative bullet point. All signs point to MathJax being awesome here, so all that hemming and hawing was silly! | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 21:33 | history | edited | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
no longer hypothetical or conditional, since we've seen that performance issues are not really relevant: make shorter!
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 5:32 | comment | added | user17995 | @SevenSidedDie: It sounds like the sort of "here's the total impact to our userbase" stat that's commonly thrown out to get a different perspective when dealing with large-scale minor tweaks, in my experience. That's how I'd take it. You know, like the stats on how much money is saved by daylight savings time. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 5:31 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | @TuggyNE That's possibly how it was meant. Though if that's so, it's an odd thing to care about—normally there's no point in caring about the cumulative delay, since only personally-experienced milliseconds of it are relevant to user experience. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 5:28 | comment | added | user17995 | @SevenSidedDie: "81.9 hours a day of additional load time" reads as cumulative user load times across all SO users to me. I could be mistaken, but that's what it sounds like. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 5:24 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | @TuggyNE I may have misunderstood the stats, and would be glad to hear that server time is irrelevant. I gathered that server time was relevant because of the concern raised in that post about 3M hits and 80 some-odd extra server-hours being generated by MathJax were it enabled on SO, which doesn't sound like end-user performance. If it's just a matter of client performance though then I think we're good: between caching and MathJax being asynchronous, there's nearly no effect. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 5:19 | comment | added | user17995 | The server time is almost entirely irrelevant; the SE network seldom, if ever, goes above 5-10% CPU/disk utilization. The stats given are all about user-perceived page load latency. RPG would need to consider on that basis, not the basis of the miniscule and irrelevant server load. | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 19:43 | history | edited | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2015 at 19:53 | history | edited | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2015 at 19:33 | history | edited | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
examples of answers in need of MathJax
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| Nov 13, 2015 at 18:02 | history | edited | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2015 at 21:56 | history | edited | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2015 at 21:41 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | @DavideCervone That's the one, yes. I just did a run and, though MathJax and TeX-….js are cached, mathjax-editing.en.js was a 146ms GET on first load, 19ms on refresh. (Non-caching performance is relevant server-side because most of our hits, IIRC, come from non-regulars.) | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 21:30 | comment | added | Davide Cervone |
@SevenSidedDie, I'm not sure that's quite accurate. The MathJax configuration file (e.g., TeX-AMS_HTML-full.js) comes from the MathJax CDN. But you are right, there is a small file (mathjax-editing.en.js at under 1.4KB compressed) that is served from SE. I had forgotten about that.
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| Nov 11, 2015 at 19:41 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | @DavideCervone Loading MathJax has a server impact on SE in the form of the configs that need serving. I've clarified that in my post. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 19:39 | history | edited | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2015 at 11:32 | comment | added | Davide Cervone | Just FYI, the StackExchange network loads MathJax from the MathJax CDN, so enabling it should not add additional load to the SE servers. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 0:29 | comment | added | Miniman | For interest's sake, there are 162 questions on the site that have one or more of those tags, so the overlap isn't as much as you might expect. | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 21:53 | comment | added | KRyan | I cannot imagine a better answer to this question. | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 19:56 | history | edited | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2015 at 19:50 | history | answered | SevenSidedDieMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |