Democratizing Performance

Performance is essential for user experience and is becoming increasingly important for search engines through core web vitals. Just as WordPress democratizes publishing, it can also play a significant role in making good performance accessible to everyone.

This presentation highlights recent improvements made by the WordPress core performance team and upcoming new features that the team is working on. Developers will learn about existing and new tools available to them to identify performance issues in plugins and themes.

The presentation also depicts a future where site owners do not have to worry about performance thanks to a faster ecosystem, transparent performance ratings, and helpful AI assistants that can help analyze websites, identify potential performance issues, and provide custom-tailored solutions.

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2. Performance for everyone
3. We take things that used to require advanced technical knowledge and make it accessible to everyone. Matt Mullenweg “ ” State of the Word, Madrid, 2023
4. Why Performance?
5. Core Web Vitals
6. Performance in WordPress
7. WordPress Core Performance Team
8. Core Ecosystem Tooling Make performance improvements in WordPress itself. Help devs to make sites, plugins, themes faster. Provide auxiliary documentation and tools. WordPress Core Performance Team
9. It takes all of us
10. Core Performance
11. Recent Highlights • Extended frontend performance testing • Image lazy loading improvements • Emoji detection
12. Client-side performance improvement in WP 6.3 vs 6.2 +30%
13. Measuring Success
14. Data Driven Decisions
15. Real World Data
16. HTTP Archive Chrome UX Report Tracks how the web is built. How real-world users experience websites.
17. Core Web Vitals improvement of all WordPress sites in 2023 +8% Proprietary + Confidential
18. Upcoming improvements
19. Performant Translations
20. Performant Translations
21. Interactivity Performance
22. Interaction to Next Paint
23. Interactivity API
24. Image Formats
25. Client-side image processing
26. Compress images in the editor
27. Prerender pages for instant page navigations
28. Embracing the platform
29. bit.ly/wpp-roadmap-2024
30. Ecosystem
31. Outreach
32. Documentation
34. Tooling
35. Performance Lab
36. Performance Lab
37. Plugin Check
38. Plugin Check
39. Meet developers where they are
43. What if
44. Dev Tools
45. Raising Awareness
46. Plugin Directory
47. Plugin Directory
49. Artificial Intelligence
51. Summary
52. • Improving core + ecosystem • Lowering the barrier • Thinking ahead
53. Get involved
54. Thank you
55. pascalbirchler.com • @swissspidy Thank you