{"id":3100,"date":"2025-07-31T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=3100"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:05:27","slug":"the-site-speed-frontier-with-performance-lab-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/session\/the-site-speed-frontier-with-performance-lab-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Site Speed Frontier with Performance Lab and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VHy_mRe1pek?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Core Performance team has been incubating enhancements for WordPress through the Performance Lab plugin. These have been available for a few years now; some have been merged into core (e.g. Speculative Loading) while others are more experimental and remain in testing (e.g. Optimization Detective). This talk will look at how these performance plugins impact the speed of a stock WordPress site running the Twenty Twenty-Five default theme, using Core Web Vitals benchmarks and Lighthouse scores. It will also look at how the theme&#8217;s performance can be further tuned, including the use of core patches proposed for the next major release (also available in plugin form to leverage today) to further accelerate the loading of pages to improve the user experience of site visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers\"><span class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers__byline\">Presented by<\/span><span class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers__name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/speaker\/weston-ruter\/\">Weston Ruter<\/a><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Core Performance team has been incubating enhancements for WordPress through the Performance Lab plugin. These have been available for a few years now; some have been merged into core (e.g. Speculative Loading) while others are more experimental and remain in testing (e.g. Optimization Detective). This talk will look at how these performance plugins impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186678,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1756319400,"_wcpt_session_duration":2700,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[3099],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[58],"session_category":[64],"class_list":["post-3100","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-2-rose-city","wcb_session_category-topic-technical"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfz0Bf-O0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"August 27, 2025","time":"11:30 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"3099","slug":"weston-ruter","name":"Weston Ruter","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/speaker\/weston-ruter\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":"Technical WordPress","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8836,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/3100\/revisions\/8836"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3099"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/westonruter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}