WordPress 6.2 Server Performance Analysis Summary

Overview

During the 6.2 Release Cycle, members of the WordPress Performance Team performed a performance analysis in order to identify the biggest opportunities to target for future performance enhancements. To do so, the team first created a methodology that could be used to perform a repeatable process by which results could be tested and confirmed. The full methodology and analysis can be found in this document.

Analysis scope and methodology

To start, the team identified a number of key use cases that would be tested. These were meant to cover the primary out of the box functionality of a simple,