obsidian.md speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:22 UTC. Grade A (96/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 53 ms 22%
- TCP connect 36 ms 15%
- Server wait 148 ms 62%
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 238 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 395.2 KB over 13 request(s), which is lean. Images files are 80% 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 416 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 248 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Image delivery and format - 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.
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. 13 request(s) in total, 395.2 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Image delivery and format
high impact1 image(s) over 200 KB and 1 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.
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://obsidian.md/images/obsidian-logo-gradient.svg | images | 200 | 815 ms | 1.6 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/apple-touch-icon.png | images | 200 | 722 ms | 5.7 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/images/home-spinoza.png | images | 200 | 706 ms | 32.1 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/images/home-wiki-hume.png | images | 200 | 699 ms | 47.7 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/images/home-descartes.jpg | images | 200 | 682 ms | 5.4 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/static.js?v=6fe20d95 | javascript | 200 | 662 ms | 14.8 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/favicon.ico | images | 200 | 653 ms | 15.7 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/favicon.svg | images | 200 | 633 ms | 742 B |
| https://obsidian.md/tailwind.css?v=9d5102ea | css | 200 | 612 ms | 33.4 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/download.js | javascript | 200 | 575 ms | 843 B |
| https://obsidian.md/images/publish-example-dark.png | images | 200 | 567 ms | 208.1 KB |
| https://obsidian.md/graph.js?v=2 | javascript | 200 | 566 ms | 9.5 KB |
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