Performance best practices

[ironnysh]

Topic: Website performance
Audience: extenders
Topics covered:

• Tips
• Best practices
• How to run live tests using the Performance Team's custom Google Colab

Basically, nudging people to think about performance when they create themes and plugins.

Background:

Members of the WordPress Performance Team have been working on an introduction to gathering WordPress performance data in the field. This is provided in this Colab, as the Colab format is a great fit for this kind of content, since it allows providing BigQuery queries that can be run directly inside of it, and the results can be presented alongside the queries. Colab covers both potential core use-cases as well as plugin or theme use-cases.

See this Make post (Conducting WordPress performance research in the field) and this Slack discussion on the Training Team channel for more information.

[ironnysh]

Update: I’ve been chatting about this with @felixarntz, who suggested breaking it into a series:

Regarding the topics, I think it would be good to cover individual performance aspects in separate articles. What you're describing would be very broad for one article. What might work well is a series, where one intro article paints a holistic overview, and then the other articles go into depth.

[bph]

Topic was approved 5/2/24 and conversation continues on the issue

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