Optimization Detective

Luke and Jonathan catch up with a long-time friend and former colleague Weston Ruter to reminisce about their agency days before talking through Weston’s ten-year tenure as a Core Committer and the legacy of his work on the Customizer. From there, they cover the early days of the WordPress Core Performance Team and Weston’s time at Google, culminating in his contributions to the Optimization Detective project. They also discuss AI—how could they not? Weston’s development practices come up too, along with their mostly shared optimism about the future of the Open Web.

To share heartwarming AI-generated bison videos from Veo 3, I had to improve CLS in WordPress by adding width, height, and aspect-ratio.

At WordCamp Asia 2025 today in Manila, I gave a talk about the future for how performance optimizations can be implemented in WordPress today via the Optimization Detective feature plugin. This project has been the focus of my work for the past 1½ years on the WordPress Core Performance Team. Here’s my talk from the […]

I’m a WordPress theme and plugin developer, a Noteworthy Core Contributor, an entrepreneur, a husband, and a father living in Ahmedabad, India. For twelve years I…

To share heartwarming AI-generated bison videos from Veo 3, I had to improve CLS in WordPress by adding width, height, and aspect-ratio.

Analysis of the LCP impact for optimizations featured by the Performance Lab plugin and proposed for WordPress core. Presented at WCUS 2025.