Air Date: 03/15/2022
WordPress powers 40% or more of the web, and recently their contributing team decided performance should be a core attribute (not something a plugin should be responsible for).
Show Notes:
Who is leading this initiative?
Felix Arntz, Ari Stathopoulos, Thierry Muller
http://aristath.github.io/about
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/12/proposal-for-a-performance-team/
We can see the impact of this investment in the widening gap between the proportion of WordPress sites which achieve ‘good’ Core Web Vitals scores, vs other platforms.
Performance graph for CMSs on desktop clients.
Performance graph for CMSs on mobile clients.
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/28/wordpress-performance-team-kick-off/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/07/the-performance-lab-plugin-has-been-released/
Sponsors:
This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm
Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:
https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview
Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO
This podcast is sponsored by Keysight Technologies. Eggplant Performance supports web, Citrix, and low level TCP/IP protocols to meet your application performance testing needs, complete with real-time monitoring and integrated test results analysis.
