This is a true story of a group of websites picked to be in an analysis who stop being polite and start getting real about their performance metrics. Watch as the sites stop lying about how “fast” they are and start baring their true abilities. As we follow these brave websites, we will start to learn about the true nature of web performance and stop caring about the little things that don’t matter.

Guided by analysis of these websites’ performance data, we will discuss the most common WordPress performance problems; the problems that we, the WordPress community, seem to be ignoring and need to start caring about. We will explore optimizations that you can address immediately, ponder improvements to WordPress core, and discuss the messages we need to spread to the wider community. It’s time to start focusing on real problems, rather than occupying ourselves with irrelevant micro-optimizations.