Performance Chat Summary: 28 July 2026

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

WordPress Performance Trac tickets

• @westonruter highlighted #65634, a minor improvement to the development environment to make it easier to do performance tests so it is more reflective of an actual normal environment, with a small patch ready for review.
• For #65215, @westonruter shared that there is some feedback on the PR #11790 that has not been actioned yet.

Performance Lab Plugin (and other performance plugins)

• @westonruter highlighted PR #2601, which updates wp-coding-standards/wpcs to 3.4.1, and shared that there was an important security release for WPCS. While it has been applied to the Performance repo, anyone with other repositories using an older version should update as soon as possible.
• @mukesh27 shared that work has been ongoing over the past few weeks on accurate sizes for the Gallery block and that the full PR will soon be ready for review.
• @b1ink0 asked for feedback on a comment in PR #2336. @westonruter shared that it has been added to saved items.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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