nic.io speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:12 UTC. Grade C (78/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 102 ms 11%
- TCP connect 68 ms 7%
- Server wait 766 ms 82%
Measured on the connection that fetched the HTML. Every other request on the page waits for the end of this bar before it can start.
How this page compares
Every report published here is in this comparison, so it is a reference population of pages tested from one server - not a benchmark of the whole web.
What these numbers mean
- The first byte took 936 ms. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
- The page transfers 307.1 KB over 14 request(s), which is lean. Css files are 33% of it, so split the stylesheet so the first screen does not download the whole site.
- It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 796 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout shift is 1.428 (good is under 0.1): something without a reserved size is loading late - an image, an ad, or a font swap.
Fix first: Server response time (TTFB) - Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.
Read on one shared server, not a visitor's phone: use it to compare pages against each other, not as a promise about every connection. We fix what these tests find.
Screenshot
What the page looks like
Loaded in headless Chromium on this server. Click an image to open it full size.
Browser render
The same URL loaded in a real browser, so these are the readings curl cannot produce. The grade above is still built from the server measurements.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 14 request(s) in total, 307.1 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 936 ms. Of that, 766 ms was the server thinking and 170 ms was connection setup. A first byte under 400 ms is what a visitor feels as instant.
Fix: Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.
Compress text responses
high impact6 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is compressed. That is 186.8 KB of compressible text.
Fix: Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
Strict-Transport-Security
low impactHSTS is not set, so the first visit on a hostile network can still be downgraded to HTTP.
Fix: Send Strict-Transport-Security with a max-age of at least six months. Add includeSubDomains once every subdomain is HTTPS.
Waterfall
Slowest requests
Each bar is one request's own response time, scaled to the slowest. Assets were fetched in parallel, so the bars overlap in real time rather than stacking. first party third party
| Request | Type | Status | Time | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://nic.io/css/micro-common.css.m.css?20201230045454 | css | 200 | 1.05 s | 13.1 KB |
| https://nic.io/css/fonts/font-awesome-micro.css.m.css?20201230045454 | css | 200 | 989 ms | 4.8 KB |
| https://nic.io/css/micro-core.css.m.css?20201230045454 | css | 200 | 966 ms | 20.5 KB |
| https://nic.io/images/site/icb_nic/io_favicon.ico | images | 200 | 954 ms | 14.7 KB |
| https://nic.io/css.css?family=Ubuntu | css | 200 | 953 ms | 178 B |
| https://nic.io/css/nic-portal-custom.css.m.css?20201230045454 | css | 200 | 946 ms | 18.1 KB |
| https://nic.io/images/site/icb_nic/io_logo.png | images | 200 | 944 ms | 7.9 KB |
| https://nic.io/session.html | html | 200 | 939 ms | 711 B |
| https://nic.io/images/site/icb_nic/io_back.jpg | images | 200 | 810 ms | 74.9 KB |
| https://nic.io/css/site/io-nic.css.m.css?20201230045454 | css | 200 | 808 ms | 13.5 KB |
| https://nic.io/system-message.js?lang=en_US&vendor_id=1049 | javascript | 200 | 803 ms | 15 B |
| https://nic.io/gtag/js.js?id=UA-102560287-1 | javascript | 200 | 802 ms | 89.7 KB |
| https://nic.io/css/micro-other.css.m.css?20201230045454 | css | 200 | 789 ms | 32.0 KB |
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