Performance Chat Summary: 3 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 The Plugin Check repo is officially moved to the WordPress organization at https://github.com/WordPress/plugin-check WordPress 6.4 beta 2 is today Benchmark results on 6.4 beta 1 Here are some 6.4 Beta 1 benchmarks that @mukesh27 @joemcgill and @flixos90 ran over the […]

Performance Chat Summary: 26 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 WordPress 6.4 beta 1 is September 26, 2023 today Early version of WordPress plugin checker launched Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects Contributors: @joemcgill @spacedmonkey @aristath @swissspidy @thekt12 @mukesh27 @spacedmonkey committed [56621], [56650], [56677], [56678], and [56683] @thekt12 is […]

Performance Chat Summary: 19 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 Hallway Hangout: Performance Improvements for WordPress 6.4 is scheduled for Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 04:00 PM GMT+1 WordPress 6.4 beta 1 is September 27, 2023 Mention of the WordPress Performance Team in the Search Engine Journal September 2023 article Priority Projects […]

Analyzing the Core Web Vitals performance impact of WordPress 6.3 in the field

As highlighted in the WordPress 6.3 performance summary post, the 6.3 release included numerous performance enhancements. Based on the lab benchmarks cited in that post, the test sites used with WordPress core were loading 27% faster for block themes and 18% faster for classic themes based on the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric. While lab benchmarks are great […]

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 […]