Performance Chat Summary: 3 December 2024


Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.
Announcements
- Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
- Next Performance Lab release has been moved from December 2 to December 16
- Upcoming Performance Weekly Chats in December:
- No meeting on Tuesday December 24
- No meeting on Tuesday December 31
- Meetings will resume again on Tuesday January 7, 2025
- End of year Performance Hallway Hangout
Priority Items
- WordPress performance Trac tickets
- Current release (6.8) 15 Trac tickets
- Future releases
- Performance Lab plugin (and other performance plugins)
- Active priority projects
WordPress Performance Trac Tickets
- @joemcgill While it’s not a performance ticket. #62046 is the one that I’ve been looking at most recently, as it could have implications on how we approach improving
sizes
attribute calculation.
Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)
- Performance Lab plugin and the following performance plugins:
- @pbearne aiming to do one more update to Image Placeholders
- To the media modal https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/354#issuecomment-2506494681 if this hack is OK
- @joemcgill my question would be whether working on adding dominant color backgrounds in the media modal to the plugin has any real performance benefit that would lead this to be a priority at this point?
- @pbearne it is not a priority but it would nice to finish it now i have worked out how to add it to media model. Adding ThumbHash should be left to @swissspidy client side image code
- @joemcgill yes, as long as the plugin is still a part of the performance lab repo, I think it’s free for contribution if there is something you’ve already got going.
- @pbearne will add some cleaner code. But would like someone better at JS to look at the replace
- @joemcgill Sure. I’ll respond to the issue and am happy to review a PR once you’ve got something together
- @mukesh27 The PR 1683 for Bump minimum required WordPress version to 6.6 is ready for review. I will work on issue 1557 in the coming week it’s quick one.
Active Priority Projects
- Improving the calculation of image sizes attributes (Joe/Mukesh)
- Enable client side modern image generation (Pascal)
Improving the calculation of image size attributes
- @joemcgill This week, I plan on continuing iteration on https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1701
- @mukesh27 I’m exploring how we can pass the context for Column block as it’s more complex then other parent blocks
Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation
- No updates this week
Open Floor
- @joemcgill discuss having an end of year Hallway Hangout for the Performance team in the next couple of weeks
Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.