Performance Chat Summary: 31 October 2023

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Welcome to our new members of #core-performance WordPress 6.4 Release Candidate 3 is tomorrow The Performance Hallway Hangout blog post has been updated with a recording of the session Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects and link to the GitHub project board Contributors: @joemcgill […]

Make WordPress Sites Load Faster Than Ever With New Hummingbird Critical CSS

With Hummingbird’s much anticipated Critical CSS feature, you can expect faster-loading pages and better performing WordPress sites. Here’s why render-blocking resources are now a thing of the past… Ace Google’s PageSpeed performance scores with Hummingbird’s Critical CSS feature. If you care about page loading speed (and you should if you want visitors to stay on your website for […]

A Developer’s Guide: Extracting Raw SQL Queries in Laravel

Laravel Query Builder is a tool in Laravel’s ecosystem that simplifies database interactions and empowers developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code. It is essentially an interface to create and run database queries and abstracts the underlying SQL syntax, making it easier to build complex queries without writing raw SQL statements. To get started with Laravel’s Query Builder, […]

A Developer’s Guide: Extracting Raw SQL Queries in Laravel

Laravel Query Builder is a tool in Laravel’s ecosystem that simplifies database interactions and empowers developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code. It is essentially an interface to create and run database queries and abstracts the underlying SQL syntax, making it easier to build complex queries without writing raw SQL statements. To get started with Laravel’s Query Builder, […]