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<p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/03/18/performance-chat-agenda-19-march-2024/">Meeting agenda here</a> and the full chat log is available <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02KGN5K076/p1710259213872169">beginning here on Slack</a>.</p>
<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Announcements</h1>
<ul>
<li>Welcome to our new members of <a href="http://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-performance/">#core-performance</a></li>
<li>WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 3 is today (Mar 19)</li>
<li>Reminder on timezone difference for the next week, this chat will remain at 16:00 UTC and then shift to 15:00 UTC from April 2, 2024</li>
</ul>
<h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="focus-group-updates">Priority Items</h1>
<p>Structure:</p>
<ul>
<li>WordPress performance Trac tickets
<ul>
<li>Current release</li>
<li>Future release</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Performance Lab plugin (and other performance plugins)</li>
<li>Active priority projects
<ul>
<li>INP research opportunities</li>
<li>Improve template loading</li>
<li>Plugin checker</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="images">WordPress Performance Trac Tickets</h2>
<ul>
<li>For WordPress 6.5:
<ul>
<li>No open items remain</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>For Future Releases:
<ul>
<li>We already have <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&#038;status=assigned&#038;status=closed&#038;status=new&#038;status=reopened&#038;status=reviewing&#038;focuses=~performance&#038;milestone=6.6&#038;groupdesc=1&#038;group=resolution&#038;col=id&#038;col=summary&#038;col=status&#038;col=milestone&#038;col=owner&#038;col=type&#038;col=priority&#038;col=keywords&#038;order=priority" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">16 items in the 6.6 milestone</a> (2 already closed)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="images">Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mukesh27/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>mukesh27</a> for standalone plugins:
<ul>
<li><strong>PRs that are ready for review:</strong>
<ul>
<li>PR <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1048" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">#1048</a> – Support changing autoload value for largest autoloaded options</li>
<li>PR <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1060" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">#1060</a> – Remove modules infrastructure</li>
<li>PR <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1062" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">#1062</a> – Bump minimum required WP version to 6.4</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/thelovekesh/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>thelovekesh</a> <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1033">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1033</a> just landed on trunk, now we have <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1061">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1061</a> to brainstorm on release process for Performance Lab and standalone plugins</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>adamsilverstein</a> Embed Optimizer is progressing towards release – <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1059" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1059</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="object-caching">Active Priority Projects</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Plugin Checker</h3>
<ul>
<li>No updates this week, will be removed from agenda moving forwards unless there are proactive updates on release 1.1</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="measurement">Improve template loading</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/thekt12/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>thekt12</a> I should be able to raise a PR for review today, for <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59600">#59600</a> including template part caching</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="javascript">INP research opportunities</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>adamsilverstein</a> I have continued working on INP research in a colab nostly by querying httparchive data. Recently I added a few new queries that gather:
<ul>
<li>Plugins on WordPress sites with not good INP (based on Wapalyzer detection)</li>
<li>Long task scripts on WordPress sites with not good INP (using the long task audit)</li>
<li>Long task scripts on WordPress sites overall</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>I then focused in on scripts by path and ran some group queries that only look at the path. Removing the host part ensures we catch common scripts that run across many WordPress sites. Finally, I am grouping by host to see if any 3p stand out at a top level. I’m collecting all the resulting data in a sheet and will soon be ready to summarize the findings in a doc and share everything!</li>
</ul>
<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Open Floor</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/thelovekesh/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>thelovekesh</a> Waiting for more feedback and/or approval – <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/981" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/981</a></li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joemcgill/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>joemcgill</a> Friendly reminder that we’re <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02KGN5K076/p1710453316432909" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">still seeing a slight regression in 6.5 RCs</a>. This week is the last chance we’ll have at correcting things, so if anyone has time to help review, I’d appreciate it.</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/thelovekesh/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>thelovekesh</a> I have one question reg. <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/tree/trunk/build-cs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/tree/trunk/build-cs</a> <code>build-cs</code> directory in the PL plugin root. Was it added for standalone plugin tests purpose? I am not sure.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mukesh27/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>mukesh27</a> For lint and phpstan <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/blob/trunk/composer.json#L26-L28" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/WordPress/performance/blob/trunk/composer.json#L26-L28</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>REMINDER: </strong>This meeting will continue at 16:00 UTC for the next 1 week, then it will switch to 15:00 UTC from April 2 onwards</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Our next chat will be held on <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20240326T1600"><abbr class="date" title="2024-03-26T16:00:00+00:00">Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 16:00 UTC</abbr></a> in the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-performance/">#core-performance channel</a> in <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/chat/">Slack</a>.</strong></p>
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