nginx.org speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:33 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://nginx.org/

20 October 2026 at 12:33 UTC · Free test · report pt_07b57c03bfea
Grade
B
87/100
Performance85/100
Structure89/100

14 audit(s) passed, 2 need work

First byte (TTFB)745 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.39 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests7document + assets
Page weight37.7 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document2.3 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/2nginx/1.31.3

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 81 ms 11%
  • TCP connect 146 ms 20%
  • Server wait 518 ms 70%

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 72% of 4,999 pages tested here745 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightlighter than 92% of 4,999 pages tested here37.7 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 78% of 4,999 pages tested here1.39 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends fewer requests than 91% of 4,999 pages tested here7 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 took 745 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 37.7 KB over 7 request(s), which is lean. Images files are 88% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • The largest element painted at 692 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.004), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.

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 paint692 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.004under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking timenone over 50 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint692 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight37.7 KB7 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint692 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.004
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking timenone over 50 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 5 requests
33.4 KB 88%
Css 1 request
2.1 KB 6%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 7 request(s) in total, 37.7 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 745 ms. Of that, 518 ms was the server thinking and 227 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.

Cache static assets

medium impact

6 asset(s) answer without a Cache-Control max-age, so browsers revalidate them on every visit.

Fix: Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

IMAGESnginx.org/img/njs_icon.png
643 ms
IMAGESnginx.org/img/nginx_logo_dark.svg
619 ms
IMAGESnginx.org/img/nginx_logo.svg
601 ms
CSSnginx.org/css/style_en.css
578 ms
IMAGESnginx.org/img/gateway_fabric_icon.png
557 ms
IMAGESnginx.org/img/ingress_icon.png
538 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://nginx.org/img/njs_icon.pngimages200643 ms3.2 KB
https://nginx.org/img/nginx_logo_dark.svgimages200619 ms3.9 KB
https://nginx.org/img/nginx_logo.svgimages200601 ms3.9 KB
https://nginx.org/css/style_en.csscss200578 ms2.1 KB
https://nginx.org/img/gateway_fabric_icon.pngimages200557 ms5.2 KB
https://nginx.org/img/ingress_icon.pngimages200538 ms17.3 KB
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