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Relatedly: to drastically improve Wikipedia loading speed for personal browsing purposes, do not stay logged in to your Wikipedia account. The reason as explained here (see top reply by baowolff)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36114477



To be honest, three-tenths of a second per page load just doesn’t matter very much to me. Logging in and out all the time will take much longer.


Well, I specifically stay logged in so that I can opt out of the redesign they dropped a year or so ago. Never made an account before that.




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