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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 […]

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 […]