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Emily Clarke 4:56 pm on November 26, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 26 November 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 (Nov 20) saw the release of Performance Lab 3.6.1

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)
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

  • @westonruter For Image Prioritizer I have a new PR which is preloading LCP background images which are defined in external CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. files or in stylesheets in STYLE tags. Up until now, it would only preload background images which were defined inline with style attributes. This was a big limitation since from what I’ve seen page builders very frequently use non-inline styles, for example to be able to do viewport-specific images on mobile and desktop. My finding is that this can improve LCP by 20% on an Elementor-built page! https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1697 
    • This also improves LCP for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. themes like Twenty Thirteen that have a CSS background image for the headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes.. I measured a ~9% improvement. The PR is ready for review, but I still need to add tests.

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

Open Floor

  • Agreed for the December 16 release to be skipped and a smaller special release scheduled for Dec 2
    • The next release will be scheduled for January 20, 2025
  • This meeting will not take place on:
    • Tuesday December 24
    • Tuesday December 31
    • It will resume again on Tuesday January 7, 2025

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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Emily Clarke 12:43 pm on November 26, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 26 November 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for November 26, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

  • Announcements
    • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
    • Yesterday (Nov 25) saw the release of Performance Lab 3.6.1
  • 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) including:
      • Enhanced Responsive Images
      • Embed Optimizer
      • Image Prioritizer
      • Image Placeholders
      • Modern Image Formats
      • Optimization Detective
      • Performant Translations
      • Speculative Loading
      • Web Worker Offloading
    • 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 5:04 pm on November 19, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 19 November 2024

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

Announcements

  • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
  • Yesterday (Nov 18) saw the release of:
    • Performance Lab 3.6.0
    • Optimization Detective 0.8.0
    • Modern Image Formats 2.3.0

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 released last week)
    • 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

  • @joemcgill It’s not really clear what that release schedule will be yet, but we can already start planning our priorities
  • @mukesh27 Tomorrow we have 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 so we can take a look tickets in 6.8 milestone

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

  • @westonruter The most recent Optimization Detective release from yesterday has a key change that addresses an under-collection of URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org Metrics from site visits. However, this change might result in collecting too much (or at least too many attempting to be submitted). So especially for high traffic sites, I’ve opened this issue along with @flixos90 to investigate further: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1655 Something to monitor this month
  • @westonruter For Image Prioritizer, I’ve had this issue on my radar for awhile which tackles a big missing piece for optimizing the LCP element’s background image when it is not defined inline (as is very commonly the case, like in Elementor, Divi, and even older coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. themes’ headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. images): https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1584
  • @westonruter Relatedly, something which isn’t being optimized at all right now is text, er, fonts. I wrote up a possible plan to implement a new “Text Prioritizer” plugin based on Optimization Detective which I’d love feedback on: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1313#issuecomment-2460537346
  • @adamsilverstein There are probably some other opportunities to optimize fonts as well, so maybe “Font Optimizer“. Thinking about web fallbacks to reduce CLS for example. eg. some of the optimizations from https://github.com/unjs/fontaine look like they could apply in WordPress

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

Open Floor

  • @westonruter Last week I learned that content-visibility is now available in all browsers (it is Baseline). This is something else I’m eager to explore implementing with Optimization Detective: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1308
  • @shyamgadde Yesterday, after new versions of some plugins were released, I tried to activate and install them from the Performance Lab settings page. However, the old versions were being installed instead. The issue seems to be that the plugin data, including the version number and download link, were stored in a transient, causing older versions to be downloaded. This behavior doesn’t seem correct. Perhaps when installing or activating a plugin, we should consider bypassing or refreshing the transient to ensure the latest version is used.
    • @mukesh27 requested to open an issue in the performance repo
    • @westonruter The transient shouldn’t be related to the version being installed

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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Emily Clarke 1:58 pm on November 19, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 19 November 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for November 19, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

  • Announcements
    • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
    • Yesterday (Nov 18) saw the release of:
      • Performance Lab 3.6.0
      • Optimization Detective 0.8.0
      • Modern Image Formats 2.3.0
  • 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
      • Web Worker Offloading
    • 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 5:28 pm on November 12, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 12 November 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
    • 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

  • @joemcgill Nothing specific for WP 6.7 at this point. I expect will produce a final set of benchmarks for the release and write up a performance review post, as has been our tradition for the last several releases.

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

Open Floor

  • No updates this week

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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

Emily Clarke 2:13 pm on November 12, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 12 November 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for November 12, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

  • 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) including:
      • Enhanced Responsive Images
      • Embed Optimizer
      • Image Prioritizer
      • Image Placeholders
      • Modern Image Formats
      • Optimization Detective
      • Performant Translations
      • Speculative Loading
      • Web Worker Offloading
    • 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 9:36 am on November 6, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 5 November 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

  • As it’s RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 3 today, anything we need to discuss there?
  • Looking ahead, we have 16 performance tickets lined up for 6.8

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

  • @westonruter posted a comment yesterday here about how we’ll need to bump the Tested Up To versions for a few plugins this week [see Slack]
  • @mukesh27 If anyone have moment then please review coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/7522

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

  • No updates this week

Open Floor

  • No updates this week

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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

Emily Clarke 12:16 pm on November 5, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 5 November 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for November 5, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

  • 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) including:
      • Enhanced Responsive Images
      • Embed Optimizer
      • Image Prioritizer
      • Image Placeholders
      • Modern Image Formats
      • Optimization Detective
      • Performant Translations
      • Speculative Loading
      • Web Worker Offloading
    • 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 4:06 pm on October 22, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 22 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 RC1 is today, October 22, with RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 2 following on October 29
  • Reminder due to daylight savings, this meeting will shift to 16:00 UTC from October 29
  • WordPress 6.7 performance dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. published:
  • Announcing the new #core-performance-hosting channel where the Performance team have been invited to commence a discussion on initiatives [see Slack]

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)

  • @adamsilverstein created a PR to add Wappalyzer detection for the new Web Worker Offloading plugin – https://github.com/HTTPArchive/wappalyzer/pull/71 which was merged already
  • @benni had a question to the plugins. LCP priorization. Sometimes the LCP element on a webpage is text that uses a web font included via CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.. In such cases, the text can only be rendered after the font has been loaded, which can delay the LCP, I think? Would it be possible for the ‘Optimization Detective‘ plugin to detect when the LCP element is text and automatically preload the font in the <head> section to improve performance? Or maybe the ‘Image Prioritizer’ plugin could be renamed to ‘LCP Prioritizer’ and expanded to handle this optimization for text elements as well?

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

  • @mukesh27 As part of the improving the calculation of sizes work, I’ve started implementing the new approach to the existing work so we can easily update it with the latest changes. The PR will be open soon, but before that, https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1623 needs to be merged to ensure we have the latest changes on the feature branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch"..

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • @swissspidy just merged a GB PR yesterday & opened another one today, working on the next one

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

Open Floor

  • n/a

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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

Emily Clarke 11:32 am on October 22, 2024
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Performance Chat Agenda: 22 October 2024

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for October 22, 2024 at 15:00 UTC.

  • Announcements
    • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
    • WordPress 6.7 RC1 is today, October 22, with RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 2 following on October 29
    • Reminder due to daylight savings, this meeting will shift to 16:00 UTC from October 29
    • WordPress 6.7 performance dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. published:
    • Announcing the new #core-performance-hosting channel where the Performance team have been invited to commence a discussion on initiatives [see Slack]
  • 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
      • Web Worker Offloading
    • 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