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

Announcements

• Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
• WordPress Beta 3 is today
• Discussion around any WordPress 6.5 tickets [link]
  • Dev notes for this release were discussed
  • Please check https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/154?query=is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc for progress on all dev notes

Priority Projects

Server Response Time

• Link to the GitHub project board
• Contributors: @joemcgill
  @swissspidy @thekt12 @mukesh27
• Projects from the 2024 roadmap:
  • Internationalization Performance
  • Improve template loading

Notes from today’s meeting:

• @joemcgill #59532 was fixed last week and some unit test improvements were added thanks to @thekt12
• @thekt12 Working on implementing caching using transient for non-persistant cache website #59719 I have drafted an initial PR for just block pattern  PR – https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/6137
• @joemcgill The past couple weeks, I’ve been mostly profiling the 6.5 betas against 6.4.3 to see why were are seeing a net server-timing regression in spite of the improvements we’ve made. So far, I haven’t found a clear cause or opportunity to avoid the regression but am continuing to look. More eyes would be helpful for sure.
• @spacedmonkey There are 1020 matches for register_block_pattern in the plugin repo – https://wpdirectory.net/search/01HQNNQ2VPN4CKBQYKCQEC7Y87

Database Optimization

• Link to the GitHub project board
• Contributors: @mukesh27 @thekt12 @pbearne
• Projects from the 2024 roadmap:
  • Optimized autoloaded options

Notes from today’s meeting:

• @flixos90 I’m planning to get back to looking at the PR for #42441 later this week

JavaScript & CSS

• Link to the GitHub project board
• Contributors: @mukesh27 @flixos90 @westonruter @thelovekesh
• Projects from the 2024 roadmap:
  • INP opportunities research
  • Interactivity API
  • Speculative prerendering
  • Embed Optimizer

Notes from today’s meeting:

• @westonruter the Embed Optimizer is ready for initial submission to the directory
• @thelovekesh Web Worker offloading aka Partytown module is ready for final review. Since INP date is coming soon and it provides a good opportunity to offload 3P scripts, I think we can move forward with it

Images

• Link to the GitHub project board
• Contributors: @flixos90 @adamsilverstein @joemcgill @westonruter
• Projects from the 2024 roadmap:
  • Optimization Detective (formerly Image loading optimization)
  • API to facilitate more accurate “sizes” attribute
  • Land AVIF support in core
  • Client side image compression

Notes from today’s meeting:

• @westonruter For Optimization Detective (formerly Image Loading Optimization), this PR needs review: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/988
• @adamsilverstein AVIF support is landed a while back and the dev note published. also in 6.5 we’ll have progressive image support (which will be mentioned in the field guide)

Measurement

• Link to the GitHub project board
• Contributors: @adamsilverstein @joemcgill @mukesh27 @swissspidy @flixos90 @thelovekesh
• Projects from the 2024 roadmap:
  • Stabilized automated performance testing metrics
  • Improve core automated performance tests

Notes from today’s meeting:

• @joemcgill The only thing currently in progress related to this is the fixes to the 6.4 performance tests, which @thelovekesh volunteered to work on recently.

Ecosystem Tools

• Link to the GitHub repo for Plugin Checker
• Contributors: @mukesh27 @swissspidy @thelovekesh
• Projects from the 2024 roadmap:
  • Creating standalone plugins milestone 2
  • Plugin checker
  • Reusable testing environment

Notes from today’s meeting:

• @mukesh27 for Creating standalone plugins milestone 2b:
  • PRs that have been merged:
    • PR #999 – Move Auto Sizes plugin assets to plugins folder
    • PR #1014 – Fix unit test for Multisite
  • PRs ready for Review:
    • PR #1000 – Implement publishing workflow for standalone plugins that aren’t modules
    • PR #1002 – Separate phpcs.xml.dist Files for Each Plugin to Isolate Text Domains
    • PR #1011 – Move published modules to standalone plugins (Another contributor @thelovekesh is working on this)
• @thelovekesh Aside, I have started a discussion on improving the DX in new monorepo setup – https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1012
  • While working on a POC for this, I found out some issues with wp-env based tests setup. I have explained them on – https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1013

Open Floor

• @pbearne I have been working on the old core performance tickets. Clearing out won’t fix and refreshing the code as needed. if anybody wants me to jump to a later ticket, ping me
• @johnbillion What’s the process for adding the [Focus] ... label to an issue? Is that for categorisation or only for issues that are an active focus for each team?
  • @flixos90 It’s categorization primarily. We have never had anything (at least as far as I remember) that didn’t fit in one of the existing focus groups
  • @joemcgill I believe that they used to align to the original project boards that were set up on the repo, which have evolved over the past few years, so they probably need a refresh at some point. Currently, I agree we’re not really using them for any reason

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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