Performance Chat Summary: 30 July 2024

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

Announcements

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 (6.7)
    • Future releases
  • 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)
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

  • @mukesh27 For Improving the calculation of image size attributes i have been working on:
    • PR #1382 – Update wp_calculate_image_sizes to Reflect Changes in sizes attribute
    • Issue #1389 – Accurate sizes improvement didn’t account for the disable 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. for sizes – Merged

Plugin Check

Open Floor

  • @adamsilverstein I have one update: my PR adding User Timing metrics for the Interactivity 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. was approved and merged: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/60522 this is hidden behind a debug flag until the API is stable and also only available in the plugin for now

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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