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

Announcements

• Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
• WordPress 6.7 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 is next week, October 8

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)
  • Next milestone
• Active priority projects
  • Project board

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

• There are currently 9 performance issues in 6.7 (bugs)
• @joemcgill planning on punting #59600, because I don’t think we have any clear next steps to move that forward
  • Just want to review it an make sure there aren’t any follow-up items in that ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. that need to be tended to first
  • I also noticed that there was an issue with the performance tests during the release party due to the inclusion of a new default theme. Curious if we already have a ticket to update this, or any next steps we need to do. @mukesh27 do you know?
    • @mukesh27 it was fixed in #59151
    • @joemcgill will spin up a new ticket to conditionally test TT5 on WP versions that support that theme
• @mukesh27 ran WP 6.7 Beta 1 Performance Benchmark Report – please seehttps://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02KGN5K076/p1727785426773919 shows the regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. in 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

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

• Performance Lab plugin and the following performance plugins:
  • Enhanced Responsive Images
  • Embed Optimizer
  • Image Prioritizer
  • Image Placeholders
  • Modern Image Formats
  • Optimization Detective (Developer Preview)
  • Performant Translations
  • Speculative Loading

• @westonruter I submitted the initial version of Web Worker Offloading (powered by Partytown) to the plugin directory. This initial version integrates with WooCommerce’s integration with Google Analytics (integration²)
• @mukesh27 opened a PR 1573 as follow-up work for Use a single WordPress.org API request to get information for all plugins

Active Priority Projects

Investigate INP Improvements

• @adamsilverstein noticed a new comment in the INP opportunities doc (created in March) noting that Elementor has fixed one of the issues identified there. Their new release has the fix which loads CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. more dynamically based on content.

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

• @joemcgill For improving the calculation of image sizes attributes, we’ve been doing some experimentation with using block context to pass layout information from parent blocks to their ancestors and have noticed that #62046 is affecting our work. I’d like to see if we could get this solved for 6.7 so we don’t need to ship a workaround for this 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. in our feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. implementation. @gziolo flagged this as too late for 6.7 on the ticket, but as a bug, I think it could still land during betas.
  • @joemcgill also tagged @flixos90 and @adamsilverstein for some feedback on https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1186.

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

• @flixos90 The Performance Lab feedback form did not receive any responses, so we will share requests for feedback on social media and other channels

Open Floor

• Further discussion on WP 6.7 performance benchmarks
  • @joemcgill regarding (Slack post) the performance metrics for classic themes looks pretty steady, which is great! For TT4, it seems like we need to investigate the cause of the additional performance regression during template rendering, because adding 10% is not great.
  • Can we spin up a tracking issue in our performance repo to collect each of these benchmarks during the release and have a place to discuss the potential causes/remediation efforts?
    • @mukesh27 to start this issue

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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