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Performance Good First Issues

Open issues about Performance from GitHub projects in every language. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly, and the subject's other names are matched too.

Performance

Open issues
156k
New this week
5.4k
Nobody on it yet
140k
Average difficulty
4.2/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 4.2/5 across 182,899 issues.
  • 3% of 182,899 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 12, 2026.

About Performance

Performance work makes software faster or lighter: profiling, reducing memory use, caching and removing unnecessary work.

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Questions

How many Performance issues are open here?
155,528 open issues: 5,435 opened in the last seven days, and 139,664 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
Can you pick one for me?
Yes: sign in with GitHub and Your next issue shows one open issue nobody has claimed, matched to your languages, your time and the difficulty you want.

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