Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Announcements

• @clarkeemily: Reminder for the vote open on Explore unbundling of Performance Lab as canonical performance-oriented plugins

Focus area updates

Images

@adamsilverstein @mikeschroder

GitHub project

• @adamsilverstein One new thing this week: I am working on a game/testing tool that shows two images generated by WordPress and asks users which they prefer. The comparisons will cover a range of quality settings and mime types (and image engines) and we will collect data about the comparisons. My goal is both to have something fun and interactive as well as get some actual WordPress based data on image quality to help make a decision about where to set WebP default quality in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  I’d love to have some testers/feedback here once I get it a little further developed (to be shared in future).
• @pbearne I will/plan create a combined patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. with dom-color with theme flags and media lib changes for core and then create a new proposal blogblog (versus network, site) post on make for this new version
  Following from @flixos90 comment on the media lib patch
• @spacedmonkey asked if we are hoping to get dominant color into 6.2
  • @pbearne would love to get it in but @spacedmonkey unsure if the 80% rule was met (is it useful for 80% of users)
  • @pbearne I am hoping as this is a enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. to the media library and the is for every one we can get it in and with the them flag it can be pulled into a theme if wanted just like you might use the icons from core in a theme

Feedback requested

• See above
• Needs Discussion (10 issues)
• Needs Dev (1 issue)

Object Cache

@tillkruess @spacedmonkey

GitHub project

• @spacedmonkey: Focusing on:
  • Ready to commit and has unit tests
    https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3814
  • Close to commit, needs review, has unit tests
    https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3366
  • Needs review and has unit tests
    https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3544
  • Needs review and has unit tests
    https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3178
  • Needs review and has unit tests
    https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3365
• I have a lot of PRs that need code review ^. Some of them have been waiting since November
• Anyone on this call can take a look, that would be helpful, specially the core committers, like @flixos90 @adamsilverstein @peterwilsoncc @sergeybiryukov or @johnbillion
• I have also been looking into this – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/45309
  • Basically, to get template / template parts for blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. theme, you have do a database query per part
  • This can result in 10+ queries per page, even after queries are cached
  • I am wondering if it makes sense to just load all template parts in single database query and them filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. using PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher
  • The only worry is that you may load templates you do not use or you might have say 40 templates. But that seems unlikely
  • Templates are not like content, there will not be 20k templates. The benefit of using one query and one cache

Feedback requested

• See above
• Needs Discussion (4 issues)
• Needs Review (1 issue)

Measurement

N/A

GitHub project

• @joegrainger: PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Checker work in progress (mainly infrastructure right now) and coming along nicely

Feedback requested

• Needs Discussion (5 issues)
• Needs Review (1 issue)
• Needs Testing (0 issues)

JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. & CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.

@aristath @sergiomdgomes

GitHub project

• No updates

Feedback requested

• Needs Discussion (4 issues)
• Needs Review (2 issues)

Database

@olliejones

GitHub project

• No updates

Feedback requested

• Needs Discussion (3 issues)
• Needs Review (2 issues)

Infrastructure

@flixos90

GitHub project

• No major updates
• @mukesh27 Update json5 to their latest versions to fix vulnerability needs a second review. If anyone has a few minutes, then please review it

Feedback requested

• Needs Discussion (7 issues)
• Needs Review (2 issues)

Open Floor

• @olliejones I’m seeing some very promising performance results from using SQLite as the persister for an object cache. Is this worth proposing as a Performance Lab module?
  • Performing very well on a WooCommerce site on low-end Godaddy hosting – been doing some tests on my 100K user test site, it seems good. Also works with multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site
  • @pbearne suggested yes, @olliejones will write a proposal
  • @spacedmonkey +1 for this idea. Adding object caching to sites without the overhead of memcache or redis, could be massive big for smaller sites
  • @adamsilverstein would be especially great for hosts that don’t support traditional object caching and won’t for some real reasons
  • @olliejones Last week I asked whether there are any more-or-less standardized large-site benchmarking environments. This is why. Anything?
    • @spacedmonkey You can use WP_CLI to generate 100s of posts, comments or users https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/post/generate/
    • @olliejones Yes. But it would be cool if we had an accepted PressStone benchmark. Maybe that turns into another module proposal.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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