Performance Chat Summary: 8 April 2025

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Announcements / Reminders

• The Performance team is shifting the timing of out meetings to 3pm UTC to match many countries having shifted their time 1 hour in recent weeks. Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 15:00 UTC.

WordPress Performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets

There wasn’t much to discuss on performance tickets for the upcoming 6.8 release, since it is coming out next week.

The team discussed the recently announced slowing major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope. cadence and how that might impact the team’s work. While this means we will have more time to land new features in 6.9, @swissspidy pointed out what “with more time between releases it becomes even more important to keep an eye on any performance regressions over time”. He plans to work to better document the existing tools we have that help address that. He also pointed out that plugins become more important, so we might want to build more Performance Lab plugins going forward.

Meeting time

With many countries having shifted their time 1 hour in the last few weeks, the team discussed and emoji-voted on whether to move our meeting time to match. The decision was to change the time from 4pm UTC to 3pm UTC. The time at https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ was adjusted to reflect this change. The same one hour shift was made to the timing of our 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. scrubs as well.

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)

• @flixos90 requested feedback on his proposal for a new View Transitions plugin – https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1963
• @swissspidy pointed out the potential in combination with speculative loading for more app-like behavior
• The team discussed bumping the “Tested up to” version for the plugin to match the upcoming 6.8 release
  • This PR aims to enable bumping the “Tested up to” version without a full plugin update – https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1960
• @mukesh27 pointed out that for Accurate sizes the “Add ancestor 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. context” PR was merged last week – https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1795 and that https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1818 is ready for review

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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