In this WP Tavern episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Weston Ruter at WordCamp US in Portland. Weston shares insights from his presentation on WordPress performance, discussing improvements made by the Core Performance Team, including lazy loading, enhanced responsive images, and speculative loading. They explore the challenges of maintaining speed as plugins increase site complexity, browser and…
On the podcast today we have Felix Arntz who discusses speculative loading, a new WordPress 6.8 feature designed to make websites faster by preloading pages before users navigate to them. Felix explains how it works, why WordPress uses a conservative default setting for broad compatibility, and how more eager configurations are possible with plugins or…
WordPress’ Performance team is proposing merging Performant Translations into core in time for the upcoming […]
WordPress’ Performance Team has published a summary of a core performance analysis they completed in […]
WordPress’ Performance Team contributors have merged a new experimental SQLite integration module that is on […]
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On the podcast today we have Felix Arntz. Felix is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google and a WordPress core committer. He is the lead engineer for the Site Kit plugin for WordPress and has been a regular contributor to WordPress for several years. He’s also been involved in the newly created WordPress performance team…
Some new data from a recent Core Web Vitals (CWV) technology report produced by the […]
Yoast and Google-sponsored WordPress core contributors are proposing the project add a Performance team to […]
The Jetpack team has been quietly testing a new plugin called Jetpack Boost, which addresses […]
Just a day after launching its new privacy-first web analytics product last week, Cloudflare announced […]
WordPress 5.0.1 was released yesterday as a security release with fixes for seven vulnerabilities that […]
Milan Dinić, a WordPress developer based in Serbia, has released his commonWP plugin that enables […]