Hallway Hangout: Performance Improvements for WordPress 6.4

Following up on the prior performance related hallway hangout for WordPress 6.3, @flixos90 @joemcgill and @clarkeemily will be co-hosting an upcoming hallway hangout to discuss happenings for 6.4. If you’re interested in joining, the Hallway Hangout will happen on 2023-10-19 15:00. a Zoom link will be shared in the #core-performance Slack channel before starting. At a high level, we will […]

Performance Chat Summary: 12 September 2023

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Welcome to our new members of #core-performance Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects Contributors: @joemcgill @spacedmonkey @aristath @swissspidy @thekt12 @mukesh27 @spacedmonkey Ready for review https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4460 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58329 Working on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59310 Committed https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/bd594f72a83e0512d60aec5436ab653ed5966678 @thekt12 I have addressed #58682, got some initial review changes. I’ll […]

Performance Chat Summary: 5 September 2023

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Welcome to our new members of #core-performance Call for Testing post to request folks to test the new Performant Translations plugin Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects Contributors: @joemcgill @spacedmonkey @aristath @swissspidy @spacedmonkey Ready for review https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58329 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58327 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59279 Working on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58001 I would […]

Call for Testing: Performant Translations

The core performance team recently conducted an in-depth i18n performance analysis. It showed that localized WordPress sites load significantly slower than a site without translations. The blog post presented and compared multiple solutions to this problem, and now the team would like to test the most promising approach at a wider scale using a dedicated plugin. Introducing the Performant […]

Performance Chat Summary: 29 August 2023

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Welcome to our new members of #core-performance Thanks to everyone who visited the Performance table on Contributor Day at WordCamp US last week – here’s a round-up of some activity: @westonruter I was working on removing unload event handlers from wp-admin (#55491) which relate to performance since they prevent bfcache. […]