Notas del episodio
In Episode 31 of The Melapress Show, Weston Ruter — long-time WordPress Core Committer and Principal Engineer at WP Engine — joins Robert Abela to take a deep dive into how WordPress Core keeps improving its speed and performance. Together, they uncover the teamwork, engineering, and testing that drive each performance release — from the Core Performance Team’s collaboration to the experimental features developed in the Performance Lab plugin.
Key topics include:
- How the Core Performance Team identifies and prioritizes new improvements
- The role of Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, TTFB, CLS) in guiding performance work
- How experimental features in the Performance Lab plugin make it into Core
- Real-world optimizations like responsive image handling, speculative loading, and bfcache