Performance Chat Summary: 8 November 2022
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.
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Mini bug scrub of performance issues for 6.1.1
- See here
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56923 – PR committed; should become available when @mamaduka syncs Gutenberg to core on Thursday
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56815 – assigned to @flixos90 for review
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56900 – assigned to @peterwilsoncc for commit
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56945 – @flixos90 has PR in progress at https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3536 that needs review and feedback, especially from Gutenberg team. @annezazu working to loop someone in there.
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56948 – ready for commit, just needs a final review; assigned to @peterwilsoncc
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56952 – @adamsilverstein to look into
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56974 – @flixos90 took a first look at the PR last week and will give it a comprehensive review today
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56990 – @adamsilverstein‘s changes need review/testing
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56991 – @spacedmonkey‘s fix at https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3575 needs review
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57012 – ready for commit by @peterwilsoncc
Focus area updates
Images
@adamsilverstein @mikeschroder
- @adamsilverstein: Discovered a library, jSquash, that brings image format encoding/decoding to the web. Tested a bit and oping to use it to enhance the core image block with modern image capabilities. If successful, would let us introduce AVIF support without depending on server-side support.
- @mehulkaklotar: Working on #563 for Performance Lab to change default WebP quality to 82; PR needs review.
Feedback requested
- See above
- Needs Discussion (10 issues)
- Needs Review (5 issues)
Object Cache
- @spacedmonkey: Working mostly on 6.1.1 issues, but a few for 6.2, as well:
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3544
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3528
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3534
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3366
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3365
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3178
- @tillkruess: Chatted with @johnjamesjacoby about adding a health check for the new
wp_cache_supports()function to show which object caching features are supported/not supported but recommended. See https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3347. For example,get_multiple()is quite important. Any feedback on adding as a health check?- @spacedmonkey: Now have
wp_cache_supportsin core that we could use andwp_cache_supports( 'get_multiple')in all options. Instead of loading all options in one cache key, load each in their own cache key and all in single call.
- @spacedmonkey: Now have
Feedback requested
- See above
- Needs Discussion (4 issues)
- Needs Review (1 issue)
Measurement
N/A
- No updates
Feedback requested
- Needs Discussion (5 issues)
- Needs Review (1 issue)
JS & CSS
- No updates
Feedback requested
- Tree-shaking block styles on the frontend #41020
- Needs Discussion (4 issues)
- Needs Review (2 issues)
Database
- @olliejones: Ready for a vote on https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/132
- Voting now open at https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/132#issuecomment-1307557009 through November 29
- @aristath: SQLite module PR is ready for review
Feedback requested
- Needs Discussion (3 issues)
- Needs Review (3 issues)
Infrastructure
- @flixos90: Plugin codebase is now updated to reflect our recent modifications to the focus areas per https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/566, thanks to @mukesh27
Feedback requested
- See above
- Needs Discussion (5 issues)
- Needs Review (3 issues)
Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.
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