Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements The Performance Lab plugin reached 70k active installations this week Decision on whether to hold the meeting June 6 ahead of travel around WordCamp Europe Agreed to keep the June 6 meeting Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects Contributors: @joemcgill @spacedmonkey @aristath @joemcgill I […]
Performance Chat Agenda: 23 May 2023
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 23, 2023 at 15:00 UTC. Announcements The Performance Lab plugin reached 70k active installations this week Decision on whether to hold the meeting June 6 ahead of travel around WordCamp Europe Priority projects Server response time Database optimization JavaScript & CSS Images Measurement Ecosystem tools […]
Performance Chat Summary: 16 May 2023
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Yesterday saw version 2.3.0 of the Performance Lab plugin released Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects Contributors: @joemcgill @spacedmonkey @aristath @aristath Autoloading PHP classes in WP: I’ve been doing some tests and it looks like this PR improves server response times a bit. More […]
Performance Chat Agenda: 16 May 2023
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 16, 2023 at 15:00 UTC. Announcements Yesterday saw version 2.3.0 of the Performance Lab plugin released Priority projects Server response time Database optimization JavaScript & CSS Images Measurement Ecosystem tools Creating standalone plugins New projects / proposals Open floor This meeting happens in the #core-performance […]
Performance Chat Summary: 9 May 2023
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements n/a Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects Contributors: @joemcgill @spacedmonkey @aristath @spacedmonkey has a number of PRs that are nearly ready to commit: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4128 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4382 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4417 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4412 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4411 @joemcgill I’m waiting on some final feedback, but am close to being […]
Performance Chat Agenda: 9 May 2023
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 9, 2023 at 15:00 UTC. Announcements N/A Priority projects Server response time Database optimization JavaScript & CSS Discussion this week on CSP/async concerns in https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4391 Images Measurement Ecosystem tools Creating standalone plugins New projects / proposals Open floor This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. […]
Performance Chat Summary: 2 May 2023
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Proposal for using fetchpriority to enhance LCP image performance published Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects Contributors: @joemcgill @spacedmonkey @aristath @spacedmonkey: Committed [55701] and [55702] @spacedmonkey has been working on #58196 Could have the possibility to have 6-10% of server […]
Proposal for enhancing LCP image performance with the fetchpriority attribute in WordPress core
This post proposes adding the fetchpriority=”high” attribute to LCP images in WordPress core to enhance LCP performance. The proposal was created as a collaboration between members of the Core Performance Team. Context The fetchpriority attribute is a standard HTML attribute that can be used to indicate to the browser that a given resource should have a particular priority […]
Performance Chat Agenda: 2 May 2023
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 2, 2023 at 15:00 UTC. Announcements N/A Priority projects Server response time Database optimization JavaScript & CSS Images Measurement Ecosystem tools Creating standalone plugins New projects / proposals Open floor This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account […]
Performance Chat Summary: 25 April 2023
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Updated the cadence of bug scrubs to be every 2 weeks – next one scheduled for April 26, 2023 at 15:00 UTC. @flixos90 Also briefly sharing that I just published a performance retrospective post on WP 6.2 that I had been working on […]


