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Emily Clarke 3:56 pm on October 1, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 1 October 2024

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
  • 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

  • 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)

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.

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

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?

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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Emily Clarke 11:45 am on October 1, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 1 October 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for October 1, 2024 at 15:00 UTC.

  • 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
    • 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) including:
      • Enhanced Responsive Images
      • Embed Optimizer
      • Image Prioritizer
      • Image Placeholders
      • Modern Image Formats
      • Optimization Detective
      • Performant Translations
      • Speculative Loading
    • Active priority projects
  • Open floor

If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.

This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack.

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Emily Clarke 8:43 am on September 25, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 24 September 2024

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. 1 is next week, October 1
  • Performance Lab release 3.4.1 was published yesterday
  • The WordPress Performance Team is looking for feedback to streamline the onboarding experience of the 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. We would appreciate it if would you took 5 minutes of your time to set up the plugin and share your feedback.

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
  • Performance Lab plugin (and other performance plugins)
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

  • There are currently 19 performance issues in 6.7
  • To be discussed on tomorrow’s 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. scrub

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

Active Priority Projects

Investigate INP Improvements

  • No updates this week

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

  • No updates this week

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • @swissspidy I gave a talk about this last week at WCUS, which was a great success. Lots of positive feedback and interest in helping to contribute. Writing a blogblog (versus network, site) post now with details etc
    • @joemcgill Once this effort gets past the initial experiments phase, I think it would benefit from more people being able to support Pascal in implementing some of these ideas. What do you think?
    • @swissspidy Definitely 🙂 As soon as this is in 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/, more eyes are definitely helpful. But even now it can’t hurt to at least test the existing plugin and provide feedback

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

Open Floor

  • n/a

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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Emily Clarke 12:09 pm on September 24, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 24 September 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for September 24, 2024 at 15:00 UTC.

  • 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. 1 is next week, October 1
    • Performance Lab release 3.4.1 was published yesterday
  • 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 milestone report. There are currently 19 tickets unresolved
      • Future release
    • 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) including:
      • Enhanced Responsive Images
      • Embed Optimizer
      • Image Prioritizer
      • Image Placeholders
      • Modern Image Formats
      • Optimization Detective
      • Performant Translations
      • Speculative Loading
    • Active priority projects
  • Open floor

If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.

This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack.

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Emily Clarke 4:01 pm on September 10, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 10 September 2024

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

Announcements

  • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
  • 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 is coming up Sep 17-20 in Portland, Oregon – we will have a performance table at 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/. with Adam
  • 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. 1 is October 1
  • Performance Lab next release scheduled for Sep 23

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
  • 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

Investigate INP Improvements

  • No updates this week

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

  • @joemcgill we’re still working through some details on the approach for incorporating layout info for ancestor blocks and hope to have an update later this week.

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • @swissspidy Nothing new really from my side since last week. A couple of smaller PRs got merged into GB, and I’m ironing out some build tooling issues. Apart from that, focusing on my WCUS talk

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

  • @flixos90 The only news on enhancing the onboarding experience is that we’re going to ask attendees at the Google booth at WCUS to give Performance Lab a spin. We hope that from there we get a diverse list of people, especially including ones that have not used the plugin before. That should help us get some idea on what people consider pain points in the onboarding process.

Open Floor

  • @swissspidy Performance chat sometimes clashes with release parties (like today). Should we consider moving the meeting on those occasions? e.g. by +1 hour or so. Or not a big deal?
    • @joemcgill I’m unsure how many of the release parties for this 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. will happen at the usual time, given the timezone makeup of the team. I think @peterwilsoncc was planning on publishing a schedule for betas/RCs soon. Perhaps something to consider after that?
  • Suggestion to cancel next week’s meeting due to WordCamp US

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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Emily Clarke 1:04 pm on September 10, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 10 September 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for September 10, 2024 at 15:00 UTC.

  • Announcements
    • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
    • 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 is coming up Sep 17-20 in Portland, Oregon – we will have a performance table at 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/. with Adam
    • 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. 1 is October 1
    • Performance Lab next release scheduled for Sep 23
  • 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 milestone report. There are currently 20 tickets unresolved
      • Future release
    • 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) including:
      • Enhanced Responsive Images
      • Embed Optimizer
      • Image Prioritizer
      • Image Placeholders
      • Modern Image Formats
      • Optimization Detective
      • Performant Translations
      • Speculative Loading
    • Active priority projects
  • Open floor

If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.

This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack.

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Emily Clarke 4:05 pm on September 3, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 3 September 2024

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

Announcements

  • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
  • Last week we reached over 1,000 members of our channel
  • 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 is coming up Sep 17-20 in Portland, Oregon – we will have a performance table at 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/. with Adam
  • 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. 1 is October 1

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
  • 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
    • Clarification on September release date due to clash with WordCamp US
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

  • Discussed the next Performance Lab release moving a week later to Sep 23 due to WordCamp US
  • @flixos90 While not related to WordPress/performance, I spent some time last week documenting the processes for how the Plugin Checker works, see https://github.com/WordPress/plugin-check/issues/597 and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wDGZBwWB2WAxfbHE3lygIzQFK8IssCa5apOyaBolukQ/edit. Since the logic is quite complex to follow with the different possible scenarios, this is probably valuable to have as a reference, so please have a look if you’re interested, should help any contributor to PCP
    • Eventually, after ironing out remaining questions and functional quirks, we could add a version of that to the docs folder of the repository

Active Priority Projects

Investigate INP Improvements

  • No updates this week

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • @swissspidy Working on 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/ PRs for media, but currently focusing on my WCUS talk

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

  • @flixos90 last week we informally chatted a bit more about asking some attendees at the WCUS booth to test using the PL plugin, to see how they experience the onboarding, where they may be confused or have questions. So that’s definitely something we’re going to incorporate in the Google booth section for performance – primarily for attendees that may not be familiar with the plugin yet, or at least haven’t used it before

Open Floor

  • Discussion around this Slack thread for persistent object cache
    • @westonruter I suppose the test for object caching should only be prominent if a site does not have page caching. A site may not use page caching due to it being highly dynamic or acquiring users to be logged in. For such a site, object caching would perhaps be the next best thing instead of page caching.
    • @joemcgill There are so many “it depends” scenarios when it comes to what caching strategy is best. For example, if you’re running a site like a store that needs to serve dynamic data and can’t use a full page cache, an object cache will reduce the load on the DB, which should speed up requests. However, if you run a site that can make use of a full page cache, that will usually be better because it avoids any need for the server to load data from the DB and render the page at all. For many sites, full page cache is probably a more meaningful strategy. Setting up an object cache is more complex and usually is not something folks will set up themselves—instead, relying on whatever their host has set up.
    • @joemcgill It’s possible that the Site Health message could be improved so most site owners aren’t confused by the nuances of all these options and focus only on the things that most people can actually affect, e.g., setting up a full-page caching solution. Hosts can also modify CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.’s default site health checks to give better guidance on their hardware. Possibly something to chat about with the #hosting team
    • @paaljoachim asked What can he do from the sideline? Should I mention this discussion in the hosting channel? Something else? Should I leave it up to you in this channel to followup on this?
    • @thelovekesh As the number of plugins in the PL mono-repo grows, CI times are increasing accordingly. To address this, we should update our workflows to:
      • 1. Run tests only for the plugin whose files have been updated.
      • 2. Apply the same approach for linting and static analysis.
    • This issue also impacts local development, particularly with PHPStan. While linting is fast with each commit(pre-commit hook), static analysis still runs across the entire codebase.
      • @westonruter Good idea, although there are risks for doing this when there are plugin dependencies. Like if someone changes code in Optimization Detective which Image Prioritizer depends on, then this might slip under the radar. We could specifically account for plugin dependencies

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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Emily Clarke 11:33 am on September 3, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 3 September 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for September 3, 2024 at 15:00 UTC.

  • Announcements
    • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
    • Last week we reached over 1,000 members of our channel
    • 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 is coming up Sep 17-20 in Portland, Oregon – we will have a performance table at 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/. with Adam
    • 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. 1 is October 1
  • 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 milestone report. There are currently 21 tickets unresolved
      • Future release
    • 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) including:
      • Enhanced Responsive Images
      • Embed Optimizer
      • Image Prioritizer
      • Image Placeholders
      • Modern Image Formats
      • Optimization Detective
      • Performant Translations
      • Speculative Loading
    • Active priority projects
  • Open floor

If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.

This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack.

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Joe McGill 1:44 am on August 29, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 27 August 2024

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Upcoming WordPress 6.7 release

We reviewed the 6.7 milestone for performance focus tickets.

  • #61103 (marked as an early ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.) – @flixos90 had just reviewed, and @pbiron will update the PR.
  • #61847 – @mukesh27 is working on a PR for this.
  • @adamsilverstein shared that he had a couple of small AVIF fixes that he’s planning to move to the milestone

 Next Performance Lab release

The current milestones can be found at https://github.com/WordPress/performance/milestones, and the release date is Sept 16. @joemcgill questioned whether this date will conflictconflict A conflict occurs when a patch changes code that was modified after the patch was created. These patches are considered stale, and will require a refresh of the changes before it can be applied, or the conflicts will need to be resolved. with WCUS that week.

  • @adamsilverstein is working on a PR for the Modern Images 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 to include converting upload PNGs in addition to JPEGs that I hope will be ready for the next release.
  • @thelovekesh is working on Web Worker Offloading(WWO) plugin to make it ready for WPOrg. Ongoing tasks:

Priority Projects

Refer to the overview issues in our GH Project board.

Open floor

Conversation about priority projects bled over into open floor. No other items were discussed.

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

#core-performance, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

Emily Clarke 4:06 pm on August 20, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 20 August 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
  • 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

  • There are currently 23 performance issues in 6.7
  • @westonruter for #61734 I’d appreciate a second pair of eyes to validate or invalidate my findings for adding fetchpriority=low to 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. module scripts. In theory this should improve performance and I swear I saw it did at first, but then I didn’t see improvement but 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.. Please help with my sanity
  • @westonruter the auto-sizes ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #61847 is still assigned to Future Release – this should be tagged with 6.7 – this has now been completed

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

  • @mukesh27 I have been working on the definition for follow-up work to improve the image sizes algorithm. will share more update in upcoming weeks.
    • Develop a system to incorporate layout constraints from ancestor blocks (e.g., group, row, columns, etc) into the sizes calculation.

Plugin Check

Open Floor

  • @adamsilverstein I have been working on measuring the impact of the features we have been developing by querying public datasets to measure CWV metrics for sites that installed each of our plugins. In my colab, I take each feature (identified by the generator tags we add) and find a set of sites that have enabled that feature. I compare their CWV pass rates to a date before they added the feature, then subtract out the CWV changes from a set of sites that _didn’t_ install the feature.
  • @annezazu Another topic/nudge for open floor: Starting the 6.7 roadmap post and wanted to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” to see what might be on ya’ll’s radar. Can you share there with me?  I see the above Current release (6.7) focus for now.
  • @flixos90 just sharing a brief not really performance-related but potentially interesting query result I implemented yesterday: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/wpp-research/pull/150
    This shows that almost 80% of WordPress sites use a “static front pageStatic Front Page A WordPress website can have a dynamic blog-like front page, or a “static front page” which is used to show customized content. Typically this is the first page you see when you visit a site url, like wordpress.org for example.” rather than displaying their “latest posts” on the home page. I believe that’s what most of us would expect in this age, but it begs the question why “latest posts” is still the default for new sites, when it’s only a good default for 20% of sites.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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