WordPress 6.5 included significant performance enhancements to go along with an ambitious set of new features. I've summarized the key performance improvements for this release. Props to everyone who contributed.
make.wordpress.org/core/2024/04/2…

When I spent some time in Latin America and heard more spoken Spanish, I started to wonder who thought 'tamal' was a good name for that delicious food. Should be more like ''ta bueno!' 🤓

If you follow me, this may not be news to you. But there's lots of many WordPress administrators out there that aren't aware of the project's commitment to performance. This post provides an introduction, a summary and a glimpse at what's being done. wordpress.org/news/2024/04/h…

Got a WordPress site and wanna make it faster with a couple of clicks?

Felix Arntz gives you the low down on his new plugin which adds the Speculation Rules API to your site allowing you to prefetch and prerender links before the user clicks on them.

make.wordpress.org/core/2024/04/0…

Rick Viscomi And finally, Felix Arntz (Googler, and part of the WordPress Performance Team) published a post about conducting WordPress performance research in the field using the HTTP Archive and CrUX datasets:
make.wordpress.org/core/2024/04/0…

Are you a WordPress developer (core, plugin, theme) and curious to get real-world user data on your product's performance and how it is used?
Look no further: A new Colab provides an introduction for how to obtain such data by querying HTTP Archive & CrUX: make.wordpress.org/core/2024/04/0…

One of WordPress's biggest opportunities is reimagining the plugin ecosystem. I'm really excited at what we can achieve here.

Let's dive in... 1/🧵

✨ Democratizing Performance ✨

Learn more about what the WordPress core performance team is doing to make it possible for everyone to have a fast website: pascalbirchler.com/democratizing-…

It's official: Interaction to Next Paint is now a Core Web Vital!

Check out today's announcement post to learn more about:

- what's changing today
- when FID is going away for good
- resources to find and fix INP issues

web.dev/blog/inp-cwv-l…

I've a new blog post out on all the lovely Speculation Rules improvements in Chrome. I'm VERY excited about Document Rules and how easy it makes it to add low-risk prefetch or prerendering to your site:
developer.chrome.com/blog/speculati…

Try it out and let me know how you get on!

#webperf

I18N Improvements in WordPress 6.5 (aka Performant Translations) make.wordpress.org/core/2024/02/2…

A must read for every WordPress developer.