Performance Chat Agenda: 21 May 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 21, 2024 at 15:00 UTC.

  • Announcements
    • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
    • Performance lab 3.1.0 released yesterday
    • Request for feedback on ideas to improve the Performance Team site. See this issue for discussion
    • Confirmation of the 3.2.0 release date moving to June 3 due to WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe travel
  • Priority items
    • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
      • Current release (6.6)
      • Future release
    • Performance Lab 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 (and other performance plugins) including:
      • Auto-Sizes for Lazy-Loaded Images
      • Embed Optimizer
      • Fetchpriority
      • Image Placeholders
      • Modern Image Formats
      • Optimization Detective
      • Performant Translations
      • Speculative Loading
    • Active priority projects
      • Improve template loading
      • INP research opportunities
      • Improving the calculation of image size attributes
      • Optimized autoloaded options
  • Open floor
    • Frequency of a Performance Lab plugin focused bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrub

If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.


This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack.

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