Performance Chat Summary: 6 August 2024
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.
Announcements
- Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
Priority Items
- WordPress performance Trac tickets
- Current release (6.7)
- Future releases
- Performance Lab plugin (and other performance plugins)
- Active priority projects
WordPress Performance Trac Tickets
- There are currently 20 performance issues in 6.7
- @joemcgill would love to get a review on #61532 if possible. @adamsilverstein possibly relevant to your interests
- @adamsilverstein
Great idea to cache that, will review
- @adamsilverstein
- @pbearne requested feedback on any tickets in his name please, specifically #61103 which he is aiming to get in early
- @joemcgill aiming to review later this week
Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)
- Performance Lab plugin and the following performance plugins:
- @mukesh27 has been working on the following
- @thelovekesh PR for web worker offloading plugin is merged – https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1247
- @westonruter this has not yet been added to wp.org as ideally it would first have some built-in feature to offload a frontend script to the worker. Like offloading gtag. The challenge is that there is no consistent way that other plugins add gtag to the page. However, the output buffer and/or tag visitor infrastructure provided Optimization Detective could be used to rewrite external gtag scripts to use Partytown. This would be another nice cross-plugin integration in Performance Lab, as is also seen in Embed Optimizer and Enhanced Responsive Images.
- @joemcgill Is there a simple example use case that could be used to demo the API that developers would need to use to offload their own scripts using this plugin? Maybe a core block that adds some non-critical JS?
- @westonruter Yes, it is in the readme, or at least in the PR description. The readme’s instructions should be fleshed out with the same content as the PR description
- @adamsilverstein We could also document how to leverage with some of the top plugins eg analytics plugins
- @westonruter Yeah. We could look at how the most popular plugins are adding gtag to the page (e.g. Site Kit), and specifically target them.
- @westonruter There are quite a few bugs for Modern Image Formats, some of which are listed above, so let’s investigate that
- Otherwise, Modern Image Formats seems like it needs the most attention as of now, given it seems to have the most bugs and support topics.
Active Priority Projects
Improving the calculation of image size attributes
- @joemcgill advised that he and @mukesh27 have discussed creating a ticket to propose adding auto-sizes to core
Plugin Check
- @mukesh27 advised that @swissspidy and other contributors are working on an issue for 1.1.0 – https://github.com/WordPress/plugin-check/milestone/13
Open Floor
- There were 2 tickets we wanted to discuss today
- #42743
- @pbearne I have been trying to find a good way to Disable wp_options autoload for inactive widgets. Any suggestions are welcome
- We can turn it off if wp_use_widgets_block_editor() returns false
but with the widgets_block_editor code, the inactive widgets are kept with the active
- #60414
- @joemcgill This came up during Dev Chat last week as well. For this to move forward it really needs at least one committer (likely several) to shepherd it into trunk, which includes helping build consensus about any open questions that still need to be resolved.
- From a Performance Team point of view, we’ve not prioritized it on our roadmap because the performance benefit is theoretical at this point. If someone could show the likely performance benefit of these changes, then it would be worth putting more effort into. As an aside, I do really think WP should implement this personally, but don’t have time myself to take this on.
- #42743
- @joemcgill If we have time, I wanted to ask if we want to have a Performance Team specific table at WCUS this year? I assume yes, but wanted to confirm before letting the organizing team know.
- @adamsilverstein has volunteered to lead the table! (Thanks Adam!)
- @joemcgill will be leading this meeting next week
Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.
