www.intercom.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC. Grade B (81/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.intercom.com/

20 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC · Free test · report pt_069008265624
Grade
B
81/100
Performance86/100
Structure73/100

11 audit(s) passed, 5 need work

First byte (TTFB)453 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.48 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight1.70 MBcompressed transfer
HTML document271.1 KBbr
ProtocolHTTP/3Vercel
Third-party163.5 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 37 ms 8%
  • TCP connect 1 ms 0%
  • Server wait 415 ms 92%

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

First byteslower than 51% of 4,999 pages tested here453 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightheavier than 77% of 4,999 pages tested here1.70 MB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 72% of 4,999 pages tested here1.48 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends more requests than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here26 against a median of 26

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 arrived in 453 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 1.70 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 84% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • The largest element painted at 776 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.036), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 438 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.

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.

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.

Largest contentful paint776 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.036under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time438 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint776 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight4.38 MB169 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests1blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint776 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.036
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time438 ms
Needs improvementgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests
1.43 MB 84%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 1.70 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 453 ms. Of that, 415 ms was the server thinking and 38 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.

Image delivery and format

high impact

1 image(s) over 200 KB and 0 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.

Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.

Total page weight

high impact

The page transfers 1.70 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 271.1 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 271.1 KB. A bloated document delays every other request, because nothing else can start until it is parsed.

Fix: Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.

Avoid extra redirects

medium impact

1 redirect hop(s) before the page load started, each one a full round trip before the first byte.

Fix: Link to the canonical URL (and make sure http, the apex domain and www all point at it) so no visitor pays a redirect first.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
1.02 s
IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
1.02 s
IMAGEScdn.sanity.io/images/4bgok82s/monorepo-static-assets…
912 ms
IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
890 ms
IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
886 ms
IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
875 ms
IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
874 ms
IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
874 ms
IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
872 ms
IMAGESwww.intercom.com/ims-image
870 ms

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

RequestTypeStatusTimeSize
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fe1f962d29283402d20e6202001651a7130751ec0-600x783.webp&w=96&q=75images2001.02 s1.5 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fa225a87833a2473d17d65296aed823ab15254bea-1464x1456.webp&w=640&q=75images2001.02 s28.7 KB
https://cdn.sanity.io/images/4bgok82s/monorepo-static-assets/5ad3852bafffaaab74434f1265525b801611b4de-640x622.webp 3rd partyimages200912 ms163.5 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F33589346d03d1fe689cc38aaa4cfad8d7b849cb0-600x750.webp&w=3840&q=75images200890 ms12.4 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fe1f962d29283402d20e6202001651a7130751ec0-600x783.webp&w=3840&q=75images200886 ms18.1 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F33589346d03d1fe689cc38aaa4cfad8d7b849cb0-600x750.webp&w=96&q=75images200875 ms1.8 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fb2fafa55a6aeb143f4d00712679ef4617705e232-1800x936.webp&w=3840&q=75images200874 ms154.4 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fb2fafa55a6aeb143f4d00712679ef4617705e232-1800x936.webp&w=640&q=75images200874 ms10.2 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Ff3537134afdca56c6c95cc7e598af56bbc3dfd87-600x825.webp&w=3840&q=75images200872 ms74.2 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fbe816b66f5bea05d715c01902b842bd3f672837b-1800x936.webp&w=3840&q=75images200870 ms92.8 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Ff3537134afdca56c6c95cc7e598af56bbc3dfd87-600x825.webp&w=96&q=75images200864 ms2.4 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fea5258c6b885508f00caafacfd62f040900f8561-6400x2800.webp&w=640&q=75images200856 ms14.1 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fea5258c6b885508f00caafacfd62f040900f8561-6400x2800.webp&w=3840&q=75images200842 ms220.1 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Febe96eeb07f59fd9f0c885a6e468a5acddf54748-6400x2800.webp&w=3840&q=75images200839 ms182.8 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F059c3c0967b844a45fff7dfd28ba680d29d189d7-1480x1240.webp&w=3840&q=75images200839 ms75.2 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F74131fc60fbfa8f1acf63696645b2fcd14f81c9e-1480x1240.webp&w=3840&q=75images200839 ms57.3 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F059c3c0967b844a45fff7dfd28ba680d29d189d7-1480x1240.webp&w=640&q=75images200839 ms24.6 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F74131fc60fbfa8f1acf63696645b2fcd14f81c9e-1480x1240.webp&w=640&q=75images200839 ms22.4 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F023a075a7061bc83a8e0fb38955d3242a0d3d82c-4952x2236.webp&w=640&q=75images200839 ms13.8 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Fbe816b66f5bea05d715c01902b842bd3f672837b-1800x936.webp&w=640&q=75images200839 ms11.7 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2Febe96eeb07f59fd9f0c885a6e468a5acddf54748-6400x2800.webp&w=640&q=75images200839 ms11.4 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F987d4efd962d3f6813c2c066ccdeaa74f2774231-600x398.webp&w=3840&q=75images200839 ms3.1 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F987d4efd962d3f6813c2c066ccdeaa74f2774231-600x398.webp&w=128&q=75images200839 ms1.0 KB
https://www.intercom.com/ims-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F4bgok82s%2Fmonorepo-static-assets%2F023a075a7061bc83a8e0fb38955d3242a0d3d82c-4952x2236.webp&w=3840&q=75images200827 ms185.3 KB
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