Performance Chat Summary: 13 August 2024
The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.
Upcoming Release
The next release for Performance Lab and related performance plugins is scheduled for Monday, August 19 at 1:00 PM EDT
@westonruter shared a pulse check on Monday noting that the milestones are on average 55% complete. During the meeting he mentioned that the Modern Image Formats issues still needs to most eyes.
@flixos90: “It seems there have been quite a few bugs piling up from the picture element
@adamsilverstein: “…the picture element support missed a few things we could have caught before launching. we also did already fix a few compatibility issues that would have been hard to catch”
This led to a longer conversation about the goal of experimenting with picture support from a performance point of view.
@flixos90: “My concern with this is mostly about how much of a priority it should be compared to everything else we have on our plate as a team. Of course there’s value in exploring picture element in Core, but for instance if it doesn’t help much with AVIF, I question that we prioritize it this much. It’s by no means a simple feature to implement and land, and the bugs require a lot of attention that is taken away from the other things we’re working on (e.g. better responsive image sizes handling) which IMO have a greater performance benefit”
Active Priority Projects
- Optimization Detective: Server-applied optimizations informed by client-side detection (overview issue)
- @westonruter confirmed that this is mostly complete. He’ll create follow-up issues and close this one.
- Improving the calculation of image sizes attributes (overview issue)
- Investigate INP improvements (overview issue)
- @adamsilverstein had no updates, plans to publish a post on make/core next
- Enable client side modern image generation (overview issue)
- @swissspidy has been working on this via https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/61447
- He’s been working on a draft PR, but needs to revise it for easier reviews.
Open Floor
@clorith raised the following:
“I’m thinking about making a new core ticket to introduce a Sustainabiliuty classification to the Site Health checks, as some of the performance ones, when there’s no real performance problem as is, but the recommendations would be good for sustainability., Just wanted to voice it with y’all first before I started throginw out ideas to change your classifications”
@flixos90: “Definitely some overlap between the two, but I like the idea. Sustainability is a different motivator than performance and some checks may apply more to one than the other. Either way, it’s a good way to promote certain checks and of course sustainability”
Next step is that @clorith plans to open a ticket with recommendations for which checks to possibly reclassify to get input.
Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.
