Google sponsored WordCamp US this year in Nashville, TN. In the booth, Google showed attendees this presentation, which includes data about the state of the WordPress ecosystem. The data comes from HTTP Archive (httparchive.org), which is built on Lighthouse and WebPageTest.
5. Optimizing Performance
How to achieve good performance?
Requests
Connections
HTML Bytes
CSS Bytes
JS Bytes
Critical rendering path
IMG Bytes
Lo d s at e Animations
Best
Practices
6. Measuring Performance
What are the metrics that matter to UX?
First Paint
First
Contentful
Paint
Is it happening? Is it useful? Is it usable? Is it delightful?
First
Meaningful
Paint
Hero element
timing
Time to
Interactive Long Tasks
7. How is the performance of
the WordPress ecosystem?
And… your site?
8. HTTP Archive
Tracking how the Web is Built
500K URLs
Top Alexa Sites
Trends. Load times. Download sizes.
Performance scores. Interesting stats. Popular
scripts. Image formats. Errors. Redirects...
31. We need data and tooling to assess the
performance of the WP ecosystem and our own sites
Data and Measurement Tools
How performant is (your) WordPress?