diff --git a/.github/workflows/cairomakie.yaml b/.github/workflows/cairomakie.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 05646257e03..00000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/cairomakie.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-name: CairoMakie CI
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    paths-ignore:
-      - 'docs/**'
-      - '*.md'
-    branches:
-      - master
-      - sd/beta-20
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - '*'
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  test:
-    name: CairoMakie Julia ${{ matrix.version }}
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        version:
-          - '1.6'
-          - '1' # automatically expands to the latest stable 1.x release of Julia
-        os:
-          - ubuntu-20.04
-        arch:
-          - x64
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
-        with:
-          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
-          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
-      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
-      - name: Install Julia dependencies
-        shell: julia --project=monorepo {0}
-        run: |
-          using Pkg;
-          # dev mono repo versions
-          pkg"dev . ./MakieCore ./CairoMakie ./ReferenceTests"
-      - name: Run the tests
-        continue-on-error: true
-        run: >
-          julia --color=yes --project=monorepo -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test("CairoMakie", coverage=true)'
-          && echo "TESTS_SUCCESSFUL=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-      - name: Upload test Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: ReferenceImages_${{ matrix.os }}_${{ matrix.arch }}_${{ matrix.version }}
-          path: ./CairoMakie/test/recorded_reference_images/
-      - name: Fail after artifacts if tests failed
-        if: ${{ env.TESTS_SUCCESSFUL != 'true' }}
-        run: exit 1
-      - uses: julia-actions/julia-processcoverage@v1
-      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: lcov.info
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 578c220fdf8..c462b0c8a0f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Makie CI
+name: Makie.jl
 on:
   pull_request:
     paths-ignore:
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  test:
+  makie:
     name: Julia ${{ matrix.version }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/glmakie.yaml b/.github/workflows/glmakie.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 647212fad29..00000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/glmakie.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-name: GLMakie CI
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    paths-ignore:
-      - 'docs/**'
-      - '*.md'
-    branches:
-      - master
-      - sd/beta-20
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - '*'
-    branches:
-      - master
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  test:
-    name: GLMakie Julia ${{ matrix.version }}
-    env:
-      MODERNGL_DEBUGGING: "true" # turn on errors when running OpenGL tests
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        version:
-          - '1.6'
-          - '1' # automatically expands to the latest stable 1.x release of Julia
-        os:
-          - ubuntu-20.04
-        arch:
-          - x64
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
-        with:
-          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
-          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
-      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
-      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y xorg-dev mesa-utils xvfb libgl1 freeglut3-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxext-dev xsettingsd x11-xserver-utils
-      - name: Install Julia dependencies
-        shell: julia --project=monorepo {0}
-        run: |
-          using Pkg;
-          # dev mono repo versions
-          pkg"dev . ./MakieCore ./GLMakie ./ReferenceTests"
-      - name: Run the tests
-        id: referencetests
-        continue-on-error: true
-        run: >
-          DISPLAY=:0 xvfb-run -s '-screen 0 1024x768x24' julia --color=yes --project=monorepo -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test("GLMakie", coverage=true)'
-          && echo "TESTS_SUCCESSFUL=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-      - name: Upload test Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: ReferenceImages_${{ matrix.os }}_${{ matrix.arch }}_${{ matrix.version }}
-          path: |
-            ./GLMakie/test/recorded_reference_images/
-      - name: Save number of missing refimages to file
-        env:
-          N_MISSING: ${{ steps.referencetests.outputs.n_missing_refimages }}
-          COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p ./n_missing
-          echo $N_MISSING > ./n_missing/n_missing_refimages
-          echo $COMMIT_SHA >> ./n_missing/n_missing_refimages
-      - name: Upload artifact with number of missing refimages
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: n_missing_refimages
-          path: n_missing/
-      - name: Fail after artifacts if tests failed
-        if: ${{ env.TESTS_SUCCESSFUL != 'true' }}
-        run: exit 1
-      - uses: julia-actions/julia-processcoverage@v1
-      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: lcov.info
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reference_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/reference_tests.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..561f6c23122
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/reference_tests.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+name: Backends
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - '*.md'
+    branches:
+      - master
+      - sd/beta-20
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '*'
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  cairomakie:
+    name: CairoMakie Julia ${{ matrix.version }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version:
+          - '1.6'
+          - '1' # automatically expands to the latest stable 1.x release of Julia
+        os:
+          - ubuntu-20.04
+        arch:
+          - x64
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
+        with:
+          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
+          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
+      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
+      - name: Install Julia dependencies
+        shell: julia --project=monorepo {0}
+        run: |
+          using Pkg;
+          # dev mono repo versions
+          pkg"dev . ./MakieCore ./CairoMakie ./ReferenceTests"
+      - name: Run the tests
+        continue-on-error: true
+        run: >
+          julia --color=yes --project=monorepo -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test("CairoMakie", coverage=true)'
+          && echo "TESTS_SUCCESSFUL=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Upload test Artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: ReferenceImages_${{ matrix.os }}_${{ matrix.arch }}_${{ matrix.version }}
+          path: ./CairoMakie/test/recorded_reference_images/
+      - name: Fail after artifacts if tests failed
+        if: ${{ env.TESTS_SUCCESSFUL != 'true' }}
+        run: exit 1
+      - uses: julia-actions/julia-processcoverage@v1
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        with:
+          file: lcov.info
+
+  glmakie:
+    name: GLMakie Julia ${{ matrix.version }}
+    env:
+      MODERNGL_DEBUGGING: "true" # turn on errors when running OpenGL tests
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version:
+          - '1.6'
+          - '1' # automatically expands to the latest stable 1.x release of Julia
+        os:
+          - ubuntu-20.04
+        arch:
+          - x64
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
+        with:
+          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
+          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
+      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
+      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y xorg-dev mesa-utils xvfb libgl1 freeglut3-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxext-dev xsettingsd x11-xserver-utils
+      - name: Install Julia dependencies
+        shell: julia --project=monorepo {0}
+        run: |
+          using Pkg;
+          # dev mono repo versions
+          pkg"dev . ./MakieCore ./GLMakie ./ReferenceTests"
+      - name: Run the tests
+        id: referencetests
+        continue-on-error: true
+        run: >
+          DISPLAY=:0 xvfb-run -s '-screen 0 1024x768x24' julia --color=yes --project=monorepo -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test("GLMakie", coverage=true)'
+          && echo "TESTS_SUCCESSFUL=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Upload test Artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: ReferenceImages_${{ matrix.os }}_${{ matrix.arch }}_${{ matrix.version }}
+          path: |
+            ./GLMakie/test/recorded_reference_images/
+      - name: Save number of missing refimages to file
+        env:
+          N_MISSING: ${{ steps.referencetests.outputs.n_missing_refimages }}
+          COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p ./n_missing
+          echo $N_MISSING > ./n_missing/n_missing_refimages
+          echo $COMMIT_SHA >> ./n_missing/n_missing_refimages
+      - name: Upload artifact with number of missing refimages
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: n_missing_refimages
+          path: n_missing/
+      - name: Fail after artifacts if tests failed
+        if: ${{ env.TESTS_SUCCESSFUL != 'true' }}
+        run: exit 1
+      - uses: julia-actions/julia-processcoverage@v1
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        with:
+          file: lcov.info
+
+  wglmakie:
+    name: WGLMakie Julia ${{ matrix.version }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version:
+          - '1.6'
+          - '1' # automatically expands to the latest stable 1.x release of Julia
+        os:
+          - ubuntu-20.04
+        arch:
+          - x64
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
+        with:
+          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
+          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
+      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
+      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y xorg-dev mesa-utils xvfb libgl1 freeglut3-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxext-dev
+      - name: Install Julia dependencies
+        shell: julia --project=monorepo {0}
+        run: |
+          using Pkg;
+          # dev mono repo versions
+          pkg"dev . ./MakieCore ./WGLMakie ./ReferenceTests"
+      - name: Run the tests
+        continue-on-error: true
+        run: >
+          DISPLAY=:0 xvfb-run -s '-screen 0 1024x768x24' julia --color=yes --project=monorepo -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test("WGLMakie", coverage=true)'
+          && echo "TESTS_SUCCESSFUL=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Upload test Artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: ReferenceImages_${{ matrix.os }}_${{ matrix.arch }}_${{ matrix.version }}
+          path: ./WGLMakie/test/recorded_reference_images/
+      - name: Fail after artifacts if tests failed
+        if: ${{ env.TESTS_SUCCESSFUL != 'true' }}
+        run: exit 1
+      - uses: julia-actions/julia-processcoverage@v1
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        with:
+          file: lcov.info
diff --git a/.github/workflows/refimages_status.yaml b/.github/workflows/refimages_status.yaml
index 28de7475326..90aadcf56ec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/refimages_status.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/refimages_status.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: Reference Image Status
 
 on:
   workflow_run:
-    workflows: [GLMakie CI]
+    workflows: [Backends]
     types:
       - completed
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/wglmakie.yaml b/.github/workflows/wglmakie.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6265a58419c..00000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/wglmakie.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-name: WGLMakie CI
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    paths-ignore:
-      - 'docs/**'
-      - '*.md'
-    branches:
-      - master
-      - sd/beta-20
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - '*'
-    branches:
-      - master
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  test:
-    name: WGLMakie Julia ${{ matrix.version }}
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        version:
-          - '1.6'
-          - '1' # automatically expands to the latest stable 1.x release of Julia
-        os:
-          - ubuntu-20.04
-        arch:
-          - x64
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
-        with:
-          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
-          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
-      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
-      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y xorg-dev mesa-utils xvfb libgl1 freeglut3-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxext-dev
-      - name: Install Julia dependencies
-        shell: julia --project=monorepo {0}
-        run: |
-          using Pkg;
-          # dev mono repo versions
-          pkg"dev . ./MakieCore ./WGLMakie ./ReferenceTests"
-      - name: Run the tests
-        continue-on-error: true
-        run: >
-          DISPLAY=:0 xvfb-run -s '-screen 0 1024x768x24' julia --color=yes --project=monorepo -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test("WGLMakie", coverage=true)'
-          && echo "TESTS_SUCCESSFUL=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-      - name: Upload test Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: ReferenceImages_${{ matrix.os }}_${{ matrix.arch }}_${{ matrix.version }}
-          path: ./WGLMakie/test/recorded_reference_images/
-      - name: Fail after artifacts if tests failed
-        if: ${{ env.TESTS_SUCCESSFUL != 'true' }}
-        run: exit 1
-      - uses: julia-actions/julia-processcoverage@v1
-      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: lcov.info