General Optimizations

[aryanjasala]

Hi team,
Here are a few improvements/optimizations I've in mind for the rtOptimizer plugin.

• Selective whitelisting from concatenation

  • Currently, all of the JS is being removed from the JS concat, I believe we can selectively remove the JS that is being loaded via rtOptimizer and leave the rest of it to the concatenation itself? Instead of just disabling the whole concatenation.

• OOPS

  • Let's use OOPS based approach for the plugin (features-plugin-skeleton?). Is there any specific reason we have not used the OOPS approach in this plugin?
  • The OOPS approach above would help make the code more structured, neat, and DRY & also help in the Selective whitelisting of concatenated assets. (to generate the whitelist here, instead of adding global variables)

  
  

Let me know your views for the same.
Thanks!

[divyarajmasani]

The performance lab team is developing a solution to offload scripts to web workers. It is slated to be included in the plugin in version 3.3.0.

WordPress/performance#1247

Let's check out the workings of that. And borrow ideas for enhancement.

I understand we won't be using the Performance Labs plugin in production, so we should explore something to improve our plugin.

@thelovekesh can help understand what can be adopted and what should not be.