www.desmos.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:24 UTC. Grade A (97/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.desmos.com/

20 October 2026 at 14:24 UTC · Free test · report pt_0ff497a4314e
Grade
A
97/100
Performance98/100
Structure95/100

14 audit(s) passed, 2 need work

First byte (TTFB)266 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded558 msfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests3document + assets
Page weight148.2 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document5.0 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3nginx/1.30.5

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 58 ms 22%
  • TCP connect 52 ms 20%
  • Server wait 157 ms 59%

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 bytefaster than 81% of 4,999 pages tested here266 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightlighter than 84% of 4,999 pages tested here148.2 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 98% of 4,999 pages tested here558 ms against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends fewer requests than 95% of 4,999 pages tested here3 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 266 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 148.2 KB over 3 request(s), which is lean. Javascript files are 85% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
  • 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 492 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.001), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 186 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.

Fix first: Avoid extra redirects - 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.

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.

Desktop screenshot of www.desmos.com
Desktop 1366 × 768 · 336.9 KB · page is 4036 px tall
Mobile screenshot of www.desmos.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 129.5 KB · page is 5111 px tall

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 paint492 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.001under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time186 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint344 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight3.32 MB34 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests4blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint492 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.001
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time186 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Javascript 1 request
126.3 KB 85%
Css 1 request
16.9 KB 11%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 3 request(s) in total, 148.2 KB across all of them.

Top issues

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.

Strict-Transport-Security

low impact

HSTS 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

CSSwww.desmos.com/assets/build/frontpage/landing/landing…
292 ms
JAVASCRIPTwww.desmos.com/assets/build/frontpage/landing/landing…
213 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.desmos.com/assets/build/frontpage/landing/landing-main-1aca2a993719479ef2844f58737757b3720cb0a8.csscss200292 ms16.9 KB
https://www.desmos.com/assets/build/frontpage/landing/landing-main-7f471609b5842100dc3340b2802c744db342366b.jsjavascript200213 ms126.3 KB
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