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Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Group, which is a collection of standalone performance modules.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/performance-lab/
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Performance Telemetry #126

Open dainemawer opened 2 years ago

dainemawer commented 2 years ago

Im not sure if this goes against any best practices in open source in general or if it would be a security risk - but much like Chrome is collecting data from users browsers for CrUX, would it be worth collecting valuable data from WordPress sites when it comes to performance? This seems like a no brainer when it comes the large amount of sites that WordPress powers across the internet.

Collecting data around:

  1. Page weights
  2. Number of 3rd-party resources used on average
  3. Resource sizes of CSS / JS
  4. Use of CDN's
  5. Use of HTTPS

This could provide a far more detailed understanding of the WordPress landscape when it comes to performance in general.

rviscomi commented 2 years ago

I'm one of the maintainers of the public HTTP Archive project, which collects this kind of data for millions of websites, including 2.5 million WordPress sites. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help with this.

westonruter commented 2 years ago

For a previous discussion on telemetry in WordPress core, see https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/38418