Performance Chat Summary: 9 January 2024
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.
Announcements
- Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
- Request for reviewers of the draft 2024 Performance Roadmap document please
- @clarkeemily We are aiming to receive feedback on the above document by the end of this week please – we would greatly appreciate everyone’s feedback and input into shaping 2024
- You will notice in this document that the Priority Projects have changed shape to being:
- WordPress interactivity performance
- WordPress load time performance
- Ecosystem activation
- Performance measurement
- I’d be interested in opinions as to whether we structure the sections of this meeting aligned to those projects from next week onwards?
Priority Projects
Server Response Time
Link to roadmap projects and link to the GitHub project board
Contributors: @joemcgill @swissspidy @thekt12 @mukesh27 @pereirinha
- @swissspidy For performance translations I just pinged some folks for code review again now that the holiday break is over
- @pbearne can add an issue to create PHP-based translation files in the build tools?
- @thekt12 Working on final bits of #59969 PR#5718 addressing review changes, unit test and updating corresponding Guttenberg PR.
- @thekt12 Also, started working on #60120 I’ll give it for first review this week
- @joemcgill At the end of this meeting last week, @flixos90 @spacedmonkey and I had a useful conversation about improving our caching strategy for block theme files (#59719), which has unblocked #60120. Jonny already created a PR for that issue which is ready for review.
- @joemcgill @pereirinha also updated the PR for #59595, and I left some feedback yesterday. I think this is close save for a few details.
Database Optimization
Link to roadmap projects and link to the GitHub project board
Contributors: @mukesh27 @thekt12
- @pbearne I updated the options autoload patch follow the term changes
- @joemcgill I saw, thanks @pbearne – @flixos90 and I made progress on better defining the future state the autoloaded option valued in the DB should be to support this and other optimizations. That convo picked back up here: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/5671#issuecomment-1877564944
JavaScript & CSS
Link to roadmap project and link to the GitHub project board
Contributors: @mukesh27 @flixos90 @westonruter
- No updates this week
Images
Link to roadmap projects and link to the GitHub project board
Contributors: @flixos90 @adamsilverstein @joemcgill @pereirinha @westonruter
- @adamsilverstein I have an update on AVIF image support – Microsoft has added support for AVIF in Edge, since version 1.121, (release data Jan 7, 2024) – see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-relnote-beta-channel#feature-update
- I also confirmed this manually be opening test AVIF images in Edge (Canary) and everything worked as expected.
- Assuming this lands in stable, we should be able to add support for AVIF to core, see #51228
- @mukesh27 Like WebP do we needs to make a module first for testing then merge into core?
- @flixos90 I think to merely add support for the format, we could work directly against core. That was done the same way with WebP. Only if we wanted to make it a default or something, we’d need a module IMO. Although at some point we may just ditch WebP and try to progress with AVIF only, depending on browser support
- @adamsilverstein Support can already be tested with https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4612, note you need a server that supports AVIF for it to work, typically PHP 8.1+ or Imagick built with AVIF support
- @flixos90 mentioned @swissspidy your client-side image efforts would be super useful for this too, as it would unlock AVIF support for a lot more sites
- @joemcgill An initial module for implementing auto-sizes for lazy-loaded images is ready in the Performance Lab plugin. This web feature is already in Chrome Betas, and will likely roll out in the next few weeks, so I’d like to get this out for people to start testing. See: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/904
- @swissspidy For client-side image compression aka media experiments I’m working on a PRD and trying things out in my media experiments plugin
Measurement
Link to roadmap projects and link to the GitHub project board
Contributors: @adamsilverstein @joemcgill @mukesh27 @swissspidy @flixos90
- @joemcgill Nothing new this week, but wanted to flag that the Performance Tests started failing in the 6.4 branch recently, in case anyone has time to dig into it later this week: #60127
Ecosystem Tools
Link to roadmap projects and link to the GitHub repo for Plugin Checker
Contributors: @mukesh27 @swissspidy
- @mukesh27 For the Plugin Check, I’ve been providing support by conducting code reviews for open PRs. Additionally, I’ve raised an issue regarding Behat test issue in PHP 8.0 for investigation
- @flixos90 Several PRs have landed in the plugin checker repo last week from I believe a new contributor? I’m not sure what their Slack user name is, but that effort definitely deserves recognition! @rabmalin thanks!
- @joemcgill It also looks like @foosantos left some feedback on https://github.com/WordPress/plugin-check/issues/283#issuecomment-1882241470 regarding steps to releasing 1.0.0 of the plugin. It sounds like the Plugin Review team have several new blockers that need to be handled prior to that release, though I’m not sure where all of that is being coordinated. One of us should respond and see if we can get some visibility into issues @bordoni has been working on and whether we can support in order to relieve some pressure from their team. @flixos90 I’m happy to take this on if you don’t have time, but will defer to you, given you started that convo. @pbearne also offered to help.
- @flixos90 It would definitely be great to find ways to better collaborate on both efforts. I don’t understand the problems at this point since I have no insight in the discussions that are happening. We could also actively support addressing their blockers which I think would be good for everyone
- @clarkeemily asked @bordini how can we help here, and also get visibility into the behind the scenes planning that was mentioned in the comment above?
Creating Standalone Plugins
Contributors: @flixos90 @mukesh27
- @mukesh27 We have successfully completed the Milestone 2a tasks and their respective follow-up PRs for the Creating Standalone Plugins feature. This is set to be released in the upcoming version 2.8.0.
Open Floor
- @flixos90 Yesterday I opened https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/923 to revise our long outdated code owners. It already has enough approvals, but I wanted to make sure to share here and give a little extra time in case others have further suggestions.
Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.
