[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #53186: Site Health plugin extension for the performance score

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#53186: Site Health plugin extension for the performance score
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 Reporter:  oglekler         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Site Health      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:  performance
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Changes (by flixos90):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => maybelater
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 While I think this is a promising idea, it is incredibly complex to
 tackle, both from a technical and philosophical perspective.

 Coming up with "objective" ways to measure a plugin's performance is
 extremely difficult, and as you mentioned, only real-site performance is a
 truly good indicator of a plugin's performance impact. There are certainly
 some lab heuristics we could use to get a sense, but it's very limited. An
 extra complexity would be to come up with a score - e.g. how strongly
 would you weigh different kinds of performance problems plugins might
 have? And then there's also the reputational implications - we would need
 to be very sure of such a benchmark before we roll it out to all kinds of
 plugins.

 Given all this complexity, I don't think this is feasible to implement any
 time soon. More importantly, I think this is something that would need to
 primarily be tackled as part of the Plugins Team, as it relates to plugin
 quality. If the WordPress plugin directory had a system for this, Core
 could use the results as well. But the root of this would need to be
 implemented in the directory, not Core.

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