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Hallway Hangout: Performance End of Year Review 2023

Following up on the prior performance related hallway hangout for WordPress 6.3, and hallway hangout for WordPress 6.4, @flixos90 @joemcgill and @clarkeemily will be co-hosting an upcoming end of year hallway hangout to review the WordPress performance enhancements from 2023, and a look ahead to 2024! If you’re interested in joining, the Hallway Hangout will happen on 2023-12-07 16:00. […]

Performance Chat Summary: 28 November 2023

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Welcome to our new members of #core-performance End of Year Performance Hallway Hangout scheduled for Dec 7, 2023 at 16:00 UTC Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects and link to the GitHub project board Contributors: @joemcgill @swissspidy @thekt12 @mukesh27 @pereirinha @joemcgill […]

Performance Chat Summary: 21 November 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 and link to the GitHub project board Contributors: @joemcgill @swissspidy @thekt12 @mukesh27 @pereirinha @thekt12 I was working on template loading research for – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/45601 this were the findings- register_block_core_template_part accounts […]

Exploration to support Modules and Import Maps

As the web continues to evolve, so does our approach to building and managing JavaScript in WordPress. Looking to the future, a collaborative effort is underway to explore native support for modern JavaScript modules and import maps within the WordPress ecosystem. This exploration is geared towards enhancing the developer experience by embracing the capabilities of modern browsers. Introduction […]

Performance Chat Summary: 14 November 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 performance improvements blog post published yesterday @swissspidy published a post on how to get started with WordPress performance testing Priority Projects Server Response Time Link to roadmap projects and link to the GitHub project board Contributors: […]

WordPress 6.4 Performance Improvements

WordPress 6.4 is the third major release of the year that delivers a better user experience to site visitors by improving performance of the core software. This version improves server response time by ~4% over version 6.3.2. This, combined with additional frontend optimizations, leads to improvements to Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)—an important Core Web Vital. For example, Twenty […]

Merging Performant Translations into Core

The core performance team spent a lot of time this year looking into the performance of the i18n/l10n system in WordPress, after proving that loading translations had a significant hit on response time. This led to an in-depth performance analysis, followed by a dedicated Performant Translations feature plugin offering significant performance boosts for all WordPress sites with zero […]