Emily Clarke 9:17 pm on June 18, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 18 June 2024

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

Announcements

  • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
  • Early WordPress 6.6 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 2 performance results [GitHub issue]
  • 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 highlights post [link]
  • Thanks to all who joined Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. at WordCamp Europe! [accomplishments]

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 (WP 6.6)
  • 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)
    • Auto-Sizes for Lazy-Loaded Images
    • Embed Optimizer
    • Fetchpriority
    • Image Placeholders
    • Modern Image Formats
    • Optimization Detective
    • Performant Translations
    • Speculative Loading
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

  • @joemcgill Chrome 126 went stable last week, which includes support for auto-sizes, so I’d encourage more folks to start testing the Auto-sizes plugin and provide feedback
  • @mukesh27 For PL plugin PR #1298 is ready for review
  • @westonruter I’ve been working on adding integration between Embed Optimizer and Optimization Detective, allowing the collected URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org metrics to inform whether an embed should be lazy-loaded and if not (when in the initial viewport) to add preconnect links. This has exposed some limitations with the current implementation so I’ve been refactoring how the tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) processor is leveraged which will make it much more powerful for extensions to apply optimizations. Currently still a draft but should be ready for review this week: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1302
  • @westonruter for Speculative Loading, there’s a PR now to implement support for the search form, but this currently requires a hack which has been reported upstream to Chromium to allow speculative loading prerenders for GET forms: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1297
  • @westonruter ready for review is another PHPStan PR to apply strict rules: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1241

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

  • @mukesh27 For accurate sizes, we used a different approach for updating the sizes. The PR #1252 is ready with those changes. If anyone has a moment, please take a look

Optimized Autoloaded Options

  • @joemcgill our only remaining task is to publish the dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase.. I saw that @adamsilverstein provided some minor feedback, which @pbearne has already addressed. I think it’s probably read to go

Improved template loading

  • @thekt12 I have addressed feedback from @joemcgill –  https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/6781. I still need to move this to GB as this is GB first issue
  • @joemcgill one of the things that I’ve been thinking about, related to these types of caches—where we’re trying to add persistence to all sites via the use of transients—is what is the best way to avoid the extra DB query that gets made when you have a transient with a TTL value. It may be worth updating the transient APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. to allow for autoloading to be specified when setting the transient.

Open Floor

  • @joemcgill reminder about the new project board that we’ve got set up here. I’m curious if anyone is still using the older project boards on a regular basis. If not, I think we can remove them.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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