Performance Chat Summary: 15 July 2025

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

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)

• @westonruter noted that View Transitions 1.1 is releasing soon.
  • @flixos90 confirmed he will publish View Transitions 1.1.0 today and requested a another round of review of PR #2080 from @mukesh27.
  • @mukesh27 approved merging despite unrelated test failures.
• @mukesh27 asked about an upcoming Performance Lab suite release.
  • @flixos90 proposed a one-off Performance Lab release to ship recent enhancements rather than waiting for all pending plugins.
  • @westonruter highlighted PR #2059 from @b1ink0, which addresses a fundamental issue with the enqueued assets site health test.
  • @flixos90 suggested waiting for that PR before proceeding with a new Performance Lab release.
  • Additionally, @westonruter shared an open issue to potentially highlight the addition of View Transitions in the Performance screen for better discoverability (issue #1239). @flixos90 agreed on the value but emphasized that it involves more complex UXUX User experience work and shouldn’t 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. the current release.

Open Floor

• @b1ink0 asked if anyone planned to attend 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. US and could help represent the Performance Team during 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/. on August 26 2025.
  • @adamsilverstein shared that he’ll be attending and plans to focus on AI and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ tables, so he won’t be able to lead the performance table. @flixos90 also confirmed he will attend but will focus on the AI table.
  • @westonruter offered to lead the performance table during Contributor Day.
• @b1ink0 asked for volunteers to lead the upcoming Performance Bug Scrub scheduled for July 22, 2025. Interested contributors were invited to sign up on the schedule spreadsheet.
  • @flixos90 mentioned he can’t lead the next two scrubs but is available for August 19 2025. He noted the challenge of finding enough volunteers and mentioned that if there isn’t enough support, the 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 might need to stop, which would be unfortunate.
  • @westonruter offered to start leading bug scrubs regularly from September onwards.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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