{"id":67277,"date":"2021-11-17T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T22:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/?p=67277"},"modified":"2024-01-23T13:38:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:38:46","slug":"wordpress-performance-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wordpress-performance-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Core Contributors Propose Official WordPress Performance Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/wordpress_performance_team-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Core Contributors Propose Official WordPress Performance Team\" class=\"wp-image-67279 skip_lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/wordpress_performance_team-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/wordpress_performance_team-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/wordpress_performance_team-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/wordpress_performance_team-560x294.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/wordpress_performance_team.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress has fallen behind other platforms in terms of performance, which has led to a new proposal for an official WordPress Performance team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 12, full-time WordPress core contributor Ari Stathopoulos submitted a proposal outlining why he and certain other core contributors believe it is necessary to have an official Performance team that would be responsible for coordinating efforts to increase the performance (speed) of WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUsers expect and prefer fast experiences (consciously or otherwise),\u201d Stathopoulos said in the proposal. \u201cResearch shows that fast websites can provide a better user experience, increase engagement, benefit SEO, increase conversion, and be more economically and ecologically friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Stathopoulos is a Yoast-sponsored full-time core contributor. <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2021\/10\/12\/proposal-for-a-performance-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The proposal<\/a> was authored by contributors from Yoast and Google. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the proposal, WordPress has fallen behind platforms such as Wix, Shopify, and Squarespace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOther platforms are on average faster \u2013 and becoming increasingly faster \u2013 than WordPress websites, and are actively investing in (and marketing) core performance-as-a-feature,\u201d Stathopoulos said. \u201cWe can see the impact of this investment in the widening gap between the proportion of WordPress sites which achieve \u2018good\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/core-web-vitals\/\">Core Web Vitals<\/a> scores, vs other platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the reasons WordPress is facing this gap is because it allows its users to utilize whichever plugins and themes they want on their individual sites. While these themes and plugins can be used to boost performance, they do not contribute to raising the overall core performance levels of WordPress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WordPress Performance Team Core Beliefs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal for a WordPress Performance theme asserts that WordPress needs to be actively investing in performance in WordPress Core and beyond, which includes core code, themes &amp; plugins requirements, setup and onboarding processes, admin\/editing experiences, as well as education for content creators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following core beliefs are submitted within the proposal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Performance is a fundamental part of user experience, and WordPress should aim to deliver a good user experience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Achieving reasonable performance levels shouldn\u2019t be plugin territory, but part of core (aka, \u201cperformance by default\u201d), because;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All WordPress users (of all types) need a well lit path to good performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Average end-users can\u2019t be expected to be performance experts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Achieving high levels of performance requires technical considerations to be \u2018built-in\u2019 across the whole stack; and as this is often not the case with themes\/plugins, performance solutions are limited to \u2018brute-forcing\u2019 performance solutions over non-performant behaviour (e.g., output buffering).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The plugin ecosystem doesn\u2019t help users who don\u2019t know that they need help, or who are poorly served by the plugin ecosystem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Users determining which CMS to choose are \/ will be increasingly influenced by performance (and the associated UX\/SEO\/conversion factors), and we\u2019ll lose ground to faster platforms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018Democratizing publishing\u2019 requires that published content be discoverable; which will be less likely to occur via search engines (which influence or account for the majority of new content discovery) for slow(er) sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Plugin Territory&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While the proposal does make the argument that a majority of performance considerations should be included as part of WordPress core and handled by the WordPress Performance team, it still believes certain aspects should remain firmly in what it refers to as \u201cplugin territory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It states that the following areas should be handled by plugins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Integrations with specific CDNs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Template transformation processes (e.g., AMP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Any non-standardized performance technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Any experimental standards (e.g., browser APIs \/ capabilities with limited adoption)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea behind this proposal is that an official WordPress Performance team would offer more visibility to the overall performance effort, meaning contributors who are not interested in working on core as a whole can choose to work performance specifically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A WordPress Performance team could also attract contributions from different contributing groups such as browsers, hosting, SEO companies, and others, as well as open WordPress to new types of contributors, like performance or data analysts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kickoff meeting for the WordPress Performance team was held on November 2 and a #performance slack channel was created to house all discussion around this project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current performance projects are assembled in a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/16N5oZ9wE6AkiqMz7b_707eh24vvpjMwsEG67XFAbxy8\/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spreadsheet<\/a>. 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