tally.so speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:28 UTC. Grade A (93/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 77 ms 16%
- TCP connect 34 ms 7%
- Server wait 362 ms 76%
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 arrived in 474 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 479.6 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 86% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 720 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 177 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 479.6 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 474 ms. Of that, 362 ms was the server thinking and 111 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.
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://tally.so/images/demo/v2/quote-nathan.png | images | 200 | 967 ms | 2.6 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/customize.png | images | 200 | 954 ms | 31.0 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/smart-2.png | images | 200 | 942 ms | 19.8 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/smart-3.png | images | 200 | 930 ms | 31.3 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/click-plus.png | images | 200 | 929 ms | 22.3 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/smart-1.png | images | 200 | 922 ms | 14.4 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/logos/glovo.png | images | 200 | 921 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/dust.png | images | 200 | 920 ms | 8.2 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/logos/rakuten.png | images | 200 | 912 ms | 8.9 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/quote-ben.jpg | images | 200 | 910 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/logos/notion.png | images | 200 | 901 ms | 3.6 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/smart.png | images | 200 | 899 ms | 40.7 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/title-highlight-1.png | images | 200 | 897 ms | 966 B |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/logos/buy-me-a-coffee.png | images | 200 | 893 ms | 4.3 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/faces-right.png | images | 200 | 891 ms | 22.6 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/title-highlight-3.png | images | 200 | 891 ms | 529 B |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/dive-in.png | images | 200 | 890 ms | 56.8 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/logos/make.png | images | 200 | 885 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/input-badges.png | images | 200 | 880 ms | 75.3 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/encryption.png | images | 200 | 877 ms | 6.6 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/title-highlight-2.png | images | 200 | 874 ms | 1.5 KB |
| https://api.producthunt.com/widgets/embed-image/v1/golden-kitty-badge.svg?post_id=415284&theme=dark 3rd party | images | 200 | 873 ms | 3.4 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/faces-mobile.png | images | 200 | 872 ms | 31.9 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/demo/v2/faces-left.png | images | 200 | 871 ms | 15.8 KB |
| https://tally.so/images/logo_v2.png | images | 200 | 871 ms | 6.7 KB |
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