[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #48116: Proposal: Tracking PHP Extension Usage

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#48116: Proposal: Tracking PHP Extension Usage
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 Reporter:  dd32                                |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                              |   Milestone:  Awaiting
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Component:  Upgrade/Install                     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion dev-feedback has-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by adamsilverstein):

 > The only request I have regarding additional data, is that it can be
 boiled down to a minimal list of things on the collection side,

 Ok, that makes sense! I'm mostly interested in how widespread support for
 modern image formats is. WebP is the current format of choice because of
 its wide browser support.

 In addition to WebP, it might we worth tracking AVIF and JPEGXL, two
 upcoming formats that offer even better compression and are more efficient
 on the server side. For example, GD just merged AVIF support:
 https://github.com/libgd/libgd/pull/671.

 > I guess, core can just send all of those datapoints, but on the
 collection side we'd boil it down to something like GD Supports WebP,
 Imagick supports WebP, or Supports WebP: yay, nay. Or other things like
 PDF Support: yay, nay.


 The main metric we need to help inform adoption is "what percentage of
 WordPresses support this format?" so for collection side we can boil this
 down to SupportsWEBP: [true/false] SupportsAVIF: [true/false]
 SupportsJPEGXL: [true/false]

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