Hey everybody!
New update about an upcoming feature that you will see next Wednesday in our wikis:
Tweak: VisualEditor performance improvements
Launching: March 6, 2024
Premise: We believe that a faster-loading editor will make editing more appealing to new and experienced editors, leading to an increased success rate in the editor, and a higher number of editors overall.
Data: The User Generated Content team experimented with loading the VisualEditor before accessing it. During the experiment, the VisualEditor was preloading when users were hovering the top right edit button and other edit entries. It was limited to the users using the VE as predefined editor.
In this experiment, we saw around 4% increase in the number of editors completing an edit and 1.5% for the pageviews per session.
After checking the results, we are going to extend the changes to all the VE users (including visual and source mode), expecting to see similar numbers after the change.