Gather baseline measurements about DigitalGov.gov on WordPress about digitalgov.gov

[thecapacity]

In addition to @afeld 's "operational metrics" (which are good) - I'd also think about "management metrics" (e.g. time to update, auditability, ...) just an idea.

[jeremyzilar]

Performance:

At last check, our site takes around 3.8 seconds to load 1.16MB of content over 88 separate connections web connections on a desktop computer. And for mobile, this nets out at a D+ rating according to Google page.

digitalgov.gov (WP)
10/9 19:58pm ET — https://gtmetrix.com/reports/digitalgov.gov/prXcMWOw

demo.digitalgov.gov
10/9 19:58pm ET — https://gtmetrix.com/reports/demo.digitalgov.gov/NW0Zkazr
10/9 19:58pm ET — https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=demo.digitalgov.gov

[jeremyzilar]

Mobile

According to Google's mobile testing tool, our site loads in around 8s on a 3G connection and it likely results in a 28% loss in traffic due to loading time.

https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com/

[afeld]

• Uptime
• Operations cost
• Second page load time (will let you know how well the caching’s working)

Others: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/website-performance-metrics/

[jeremyzilar]

Lighthouse/ Chrome Devtools — https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/#devtools

Performance

• Overall score: 45/100
• First Meaningful paint: 4060 ms
• First Interactive: 11,660 ms
• Perpetual Speed Index: 26,877 ms
• Estimated Input Latency: 28 ms

[chriscct7]

Just curious, was static page caching WordPress discussed? If so, is the advantage of moving to Federalist more from a performance standpoint (benefit over static page caching) or from a compliance standpoint?

[chriscct7]

Just spotted #180. Is that going to be explained on the site or on that ticket?

[jeremyzilar]

Good question @chriscct7 — yes, I will discuss more in #180 in the coming week. This was mostly a ticket to start capturing the measurements we were taking from the WP version of the site.