Performance Chat Summary: 10 September 2024
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.
Announcements
- Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
- WordCamp US is coming up Sep 17-20 in Portland, Oregon – we will have a performance table at Contributor Day with Adam
- WordPress 6.7 Beta 1 is October 1
- Performance Lab next release scheduled for Sep 23
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
- @mukesh27 for #61847 received enough PR approvals to be committed
- @flixos90 committed https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/58975 last week – nig props to @pbearne
Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)
- Performance Lab plugin and the following performance plugins:
- The next Performance Lab release moving a week later to Sep 23 due to WordCamp US
- @westonruter Pull request for Optimization Detective to allow URL Metric schema to be extended is ready for review. This will unblock the other PR for reducing CLS for embeds in Embed Optimizer. https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1492
- @westonruter ready for review is this Auto Sizes PR: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1476
Active Priority Projects
Investigate INP Improvements
- No updates this week
Improving the calculation of image size attributes
- @joemcgill we’re still working through some details on the approach for incorporating layout info for ancestor blocks and hope to have an update later this week.
Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation
- @swissspidy Nothing new really from my side since last week. A couple of smaller PRs got merged into GB, and I’m ironing out some build tooling issues. Apart from that, focusing on my WCUS talk
Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin
- @flixos90 The only news on enhancing the onboarding experience is that we’re going to ask attendees at the Google booth at WCUS to give Performance Lab a spin. We hope that from there we get a diverse list of people, especially including ones that have not used the plugin before. That should help us get some idea on what people consider pain points in the onboarding process.
Open Floor
- @swissspidy Performance chat sometimes clashes with release parties (like today). Should we consider moving the meeting on those occasions? e.g. by +1 hour or so. Or not a big deal?
- @joemcgill I’m unsure how many of the release parties for this major release will happen at the usual time, given the timezone makeup of the team. I think @peterwilsoncc was planning on publishing a schedule for betas/RCs soon. Perhaps something to consider after that?
- Suggestion to cancel next week’s meeting due to WordCamp US
Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 15:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.
