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Performance

  • What we do to try to keep Simple History fast

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    Pär Thernström

    We want Simple History to be fast. Simple History is an activity log (audit log) plugin for WordPress — it records what users and plugins do on a site. It runs on over 300,000 websites, and a logging plugin that slows down 300,000 websites would be a pretty bad logging plugin. So we treat performance…

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  • How One Import Cost 920 KB on Every Page Load

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    Pär Thernström

    Simple History shows a quick-view dropdown in the WordPress admin bar, letting logged-in users see recent activity without leaving the page. Since the admin bar loads on every frontend page, keeping this bundle small matters. We discovered that a single import — import { HStack } from ‘@wordpress/components’ — was pulling in wp-components (787 KB)…

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