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Today we talk with Felix Arntz, a developer relations engineer at Google.  Hired on the Google WordPress team, and involved with the Sidekick plugin, we discuss some of the challenges and approaches of improving performance on WordPress sites, as well as other open source CMS’s. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Core Performance Slack WordPress + Slack Twitter: @DanShappir Twitter: @wonder95 Twitter: @JSJabber - Top End Devs Felix Arntz Twitter: @felixarntz GitHub: felixarntz Picks AJ- Just Use An npm Package  AJ- Engineering Festivus  AJ- Caddy 2 - The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS  AJ- webinstall.dev  Dan- Watch Better Call Saul Season 6 Online | AMC  Dan- Web Directions  Dan - War in Ukraine Felix- Prey (2022) - IMDb  Felix - Man jumps out of plane at 25,000 ft without parachute  Steve- A New Vertical Farm Will Grow 3 Million Pounds of Mycelium a Year for Fungi-Based Bacon  Steve - Dad Jokes  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donationsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today we talk with Felix Arntz, a developer relations engineer at Google.  Hired on the Google WordPress team, and involved with the Sidekick plugin, we discuss some of the challenges and approaches of improving performance on WordPress sites, as well as other open source CMS’s.<br/><br/> <h1>Sponsors</h1><ul> <li><a href="https://topenddevs.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Top End Devs</a></li> <li><a href="https://raygun.com/?utm_campaign=devchat&amp;utm_content=homepage&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=jsjabber" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial</a></li> <li><a href="https://topenddevs.com/coaching" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coaching | Top End Devs</a></li> </ul><h1>Links</h1><ul> <li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/performance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Core Performance</a></li> <li><a href="http://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-performance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slack</a></li> <li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/chat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WordPress + Slack</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/DanShappir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3ADanShappir%7Ctwcon%5Es2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter: @DanShappir</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/wonder95?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Awonder95%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter: @wonder95</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/JSJabber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3AJSJabber%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter: @JSJabber</a></li> <li><a href="https://topenddevs.com/podcasts/javascript-jabber" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">- Top End Devs</a></li> <li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Felix Arntz</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/felixarntz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter: @felixarntz</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/felixarntz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GitHub: felixarntz</a></li> </ul><h1>Picks</h1><ul> <li>AJ- <a href="https://festivus.dev/just-use-a-package/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Just Use An npm Package</a> </li> <li>AJ- <a href="https://festivus.dev/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Engineering Festivus</a> </li> <li>AJ- <a href="https://caddyserver.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Caddy 2 - The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS</a> </li> <li>AJ- <a href="https://webinstall.dev/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">webinstall.dev</a> </li> <li>Dan- <a href="https://www.amc.com/shows/better-call-saul--1002228" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Watch Better Call Saul Season 6 Online | AMC</a> </li> <li>Dan- <a href="https://webdirections.org/summit/speakers/dan-shappir.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Web Directions</a> </li> <li>Dan - War in Ukraine</li> <li>Felix- <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11866324/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prey (2022) - IMDb</a> </li> <li>Felix - <a href="https://twitter.com/shannonsharpeee/status/1559636982141046784" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Man jumps out of plane at 25,000 ft without parachute</a> </li> <li>Steve- <a href="https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/17/a-new-vertical-farm-will-grow-3-million-pounds-of-mycelium-a-year-for-fungi-based-bacon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A New Vertical Farm Will Grow 3 Million Pounds of Mycelium a Year for Fungi-Based Bacon</a> </li> <li>Steve - Dad Jokes</li> </ul> <br/><br/>Support this podcast at — <a href="https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations</a><br/><br/>Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Web Performance and the Google WordPress Team with Felix Arntz - JSJ 548

On the podcast today we have Felix Arntz. Felix is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google and a WordPress core committer. He is the lead engineer for the Site Kit plugin for WordPress and has been a regular contributor to WordPress for several years. He’s also been involved in the newly created WordPress performance team which is trying to work out how WordPress can stay ahead of the performance curve. He's on the podcast today to talk about how the WordPress community need to be focussing more on performance. Not only do search engines place more emphasis upon speed, but the rise of other CMSs might also reflect their ability to optimise their platforms, given that they don't have the plugin and theme architecture which WordPress does. It’s an interesting conversation about an area which is going to matter more and more in the months and years to come.

#34 – Felix Arntz on WordPress and Performance

On the podcast today we have Felix Arntz. Felix is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google and a WordPress core committer. He is the lead engineer for the Site Kit plugin for WordPress and has been a regular contributor to WordPress for several years. He’s also been involved in the newly created WordPress performance team which is trying to work out how WordPress can stay ahead of the performance curve. Despite the fact that WordPress’ share of the CMS market is very strong, third-party CMS’s like Wix and Shopify have been growing their customer base in recent years. As single platforms, they can be very focused upon performance and don’t have to worry about the possible performance issues which the plugin and theme architecture of WordPress brings. Is this something that we need to be concerned about? Are website clients beginning to ask more probing questions about performance, and is WordPress keeping up with the marketing and messaging? He also talks today about why it’s important for the whole WordPress community to be thinking about performance when building any website. It’s no secret that Google and other search engines are very interested in making the web faster, and future rankings could well be boosted by having a performant site. So we talk through some of the ways that this can be achieved. We also talk about Felix’s career, the fact that there’s an emerging industry of people who are able to work exclusively on website performance, and earn their living from this expertise. This could be in the writing of code, the optimisation of assets as well as the configuration of hosting options. Felix recommends some things which might be of use for people wishing to find out more. It’s an interesting conversation about an area which is going to matter more and more in the months and years to come.Useful links.Site Kit Plugin WordPress Performance Team kick off The Performance Lab plugin has been released Enhancing performance in an open-source CMS ecosystem

<p>On the podcast today we have <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Felix Arntz</a>.</p> <p>Felix is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google and a WordPress core committer. He is the lead engineer for the Site Kit plugin for WordPress and has been a regular contributor to WordPress for several years.</p> <p>He’s also been involved in the newly created WordPress performance team which is trying to work out how WordPress can stay ahead of the performance curve.</p> <p>Despite the fact that WordPress’ share of the CMS market is very strong, third-party CMS’s like Wix and Shopify have been growing their customer base in recent years. As single platforms, they can be very focused upon performance and don’t have to worry about the possible performance issues which the plugin and theme architecture of WordPress brings. Is this something that we need to be concerned about? Are website clients beginning to ask more probing questions about performance, and is WordPress keeping up with the marketing and messaging?</p> <p>He also talks today about why it’s important for the whole WordPress community to be thinking about performance when building any website. It’s no secret that Google and other search engines are very interested in making the web faster, and future rankings could well be boosted by having a performant site. So we talk through some of the ways that this can be achieved.</p> <p>We also talk about Felix’s career, the fact that there’s an emerging industry of people who are able to work exclusively on website performance, and earn their living from this expertise. This could be in the writing of code, the optimisation of assets as well as the configuration of hosting options. Felix recommends some things which might be of use for people wishing to find out more.</p> <p>It’s an interesting conversation about an area which is going to matter more and more in the months and years to come.</p>Useful links.<br><p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-site-kit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Site Kit Plugin</a></p> <p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/28/wordpress-performance-team-kick-off/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WordPress Performance Team kick off</a></p> <p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/07/the-performance-lab-plugin-has-been-released/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Performance Lab plugin has been released</a></p> <p><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/session/prioritizing-performance-in-an-open-source-cms-ecosystem/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enhancing performance in an open-source CMS ecosystem</a></p>