Lazy loading of references on Russian Wikipedia

On the 1st September, lazy loading references was disabled on Russian Wikipedia. The beneficial Lazy loading of images continued to be enabled.

Impact on performance
[ToDo: Normalise sample size]

Fully load time, first paint and first interactive time were inspected before and after the experiment was disabled.

First paint

DomInteractive

Impact on bytes shipped
The following SQL query was made on all page views for the Russian mobile site: [Look at API requests to Mobileview API]