If the author or anyone else with the ability to update Wikipedia's code itself is reading this, I have a suggestion for some low-hanging fruit that wastes a lot more than 300ms for all sorts of users, not just those on low-end mobile devices.
Wikipedia, like many web sites, makes it really easy for mobile users to get redirected to a mobile-specific version running on a mobile-specific domain.
The problem is that this mobile-specific version is not good for browsing on a full computer. It's not even great on a tablet. But there's no easy way to switch back when I've been sent a mobile-specific link other than editing the link by hand. Mobile links end up everywhere thanks to phone users just copy/pasting whatever they have, and desktop users suffer as a result.
Please, anyone who develops web sites, stop doing the mobile-specific URL nonsense. Make your pages adaptable to just work properly on all target devices.
If you insist on doing things this way with mobile-specific URLs, at least make it equally easy for desktop users to get off the mobile URLs as you make it for phone users to get on them.
Wikipedia, like many web sites, makes it really easy for mobile users to get redirected to a mobile-specific version running on a mobile-specific domain.
The problem is that this mobile-specific version is not good for browsing on a full computer. It's not even great on a tablet. But there's no easy way to switch back when I've been sent a mobile-specific link other than editing the link by hand. Mobile links end up everywhere thanks to phone users just copy/pasting whatever they have, and desktop users suffer as a result.
Please, anyone who develops web sites, stop doing the mobile-specific URL nonsense. Make your pages adaptable to just work properly on all target devices.
If you insist on doing things this way with mobile-specific URLs, at least make it equally easy for desktop users to get off the mobile URLs as you make it for phone users to get on them.