Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 17, 2022, at 15:00 UTC. AnnouncementsFocus group updatesImagesObject CacheSite HealthMeasurementJavaScriptInfrastructureModule proposal workflowOpen floorThis meeting happens in the #performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account Continue reading Performance Chat Agenda: 17 May 2022
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Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 10, 2022, at 15:00 UTC. AnnouncementsFocus group updatesImagesObject CacheSite HealthMeasurementJavaScriptInfrastructureModule proposal workflowResults of release cadence voteOpen floorThis meeting happens in the #performance channel. To join the meeting, Continue reading Performance Chat Agenda: 10 May 2022
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Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 3, 2022, at 15:00 UTC. AnnouncementsFocus group updatesImagesObject CacheSite HealthMeasurementJavaScriptInfrastructureOpen floorThis meeting happens in the #performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Continue reading Performance Chat Agenda: 3 May 2022
As part of the release of WordPress 6.0, the new Performance team has been working on several improvements to the core. There are a few new additions to the WordPress Caching API. Batch API methods for Cache Operations (wp_cache_*_multiple) The function Continue reading Caching improvements in WordPress 6.0
As part of the 6.0 release of WordPress, the new performance team has been hard at work to improve the performance of term queries. There are many term queries on the average page load and improving these improves the performance Continue reading Taxonomy performance improvements in WordPress 6.0
Prior to the WordPress 6.0 release plugin and theme developers used the do_parse_request filter to hot-wire requests and hook in early to render custom pages. Not needed post queries and 404 lookups were still run. This resulted in unnecessary SQL Continue reading Changes to do_parse_request filter in WordPress 6.0
WordPress 6.0 introduces a new filter wp_content_img_tag to allow adjustment of images in a blob of HTML content, most prominently post content via the_content filter. WordPress 5.5 originally introduced the wp_filter_content_tags() function to modify certain elements, primarily images, in a Continue reading New filter to modify content images in WordPress 6.0
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Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for April 26, 2022, at 15:00 UTC. AnnouncementsFocus group updatesImagesObject CacheSite HealthMeasurementJavaScriptInfrastructureVote on plugin versioning approachOpen floorThis meeting happens in the #performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need Continue reading Performance Chat Agenda: 26 April 2022
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The first stable version 1.0.0 of the Performance Lab plugin has been released. You can download it from the WordPress plugin repository or via GitHub. The stable release means that the Performance Lab plugin’s infrastructure is now out of beta Continue reading Version 1.0.0 of the Performance Lab plugin published
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for April 19, 2022, at 15:00 UTC. AnnouncementsPerformance group contributions and presence at WCEU 2022Focus group updatesImagesObject CacheSite HealthMeasurementJavaScriptInfrastructureVote on plugin versioning approachOpen floorThis meeting happens in the #performance Continue reading Performance Chat Agenda: 19 April 2022
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This post is a follow up to last month’s Enabling WebP by default, which proposed a feature that would generate both JPEG and WebP images and output WebP sub-sized images in WordPress core. The post received quite a bit of Continue reading Follow-up on WebP by default proposal
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for April 12, 2022, at 15:00 UTC. AnnouncementsRelease party on April 18, 2022, at 17:00 UTCFocus group updatesImagesObject CacheSite HealthMeasurementJavaScriptInfrastructureOpen floorThis meeting happens in the #performance channel. To join Continue reading Performance Chat Agenda: 12 April 2022
WebP is a containerized graphics format that works with both lossy and lossless compression. Originally from On2 Technologies, it is now being developed by Google under the BSD license. The format intends to be a new open standard for true-color Continue reading WordPress Hosting and WebP support
Last year during Birthday Week, we announced Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress (APO): smart HTML caching for WordPress sites using Cloudflare. Initial testing across various WordPress sites demonstrated significant improvements in performance metrics like Time to First Byte (TTFB), First Continue reading Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report
Cron is a scheduled task system that runs on Linux. WordPress has its own version of cron that it calls wp-cron. This is where all of the schedules tasks from WordPress core, plugins and themes store their future jobs to Continue reading Configure Cavalcade for Scaling WordPress wp-cron to 100+ Jobs