giphy.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:39 UTC. Grade C (73/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://giphy.com/

20 October 2026 at 12:39 UTC · Free test · report pt_139737d302ff
Grade
C
73/100
Performance73/100
Structure74/100

12 audit(s) passed, 4 need work

First byte (TTFB)284 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.28 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight26.90 MBcompressed transfer
HTML document41.6 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3server not sent
Third-party26.21 MBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 40 ms 14%
  • TCP connect 17 ms 6%
  • Server wait 227 ms 80%

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 78% of 4,999 pages tested here284 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightheavier than 99% of 4,999 pages tested here26.90 MB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 84% of 4,999 pages tested here1.28 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 284 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 26.90 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 97% 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.
  • 97% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
  • The largest element painted at 1.16 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • The main thread was blocked for 27 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.

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.

Mobile screenshot of giphy.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 291.2 KB · page is 2664 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 paint1.16 sgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.000under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time27 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint340 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight13.65 MB103 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint1.16 s
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.000
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time27 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 12 requests
26.21 MB 97%
Other 1 request
411.9 KB 1%
Javascript 12 requests
260.7 KB 1%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 26.90 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Image delivery and format

high impact

10 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.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

6 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 5 stylesheet(s)). The page cannot paint until each one arrives.

Fix: Add defer or async to scripts that do not change the first paint, inline the critical CSS, and load the rest with media="print" plus an onload swap.

Total page weight

high impact

The page transfers 26.90 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 41.6 KB.

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

Third-party weight

medium impact

5 third-party host(s) serve 26.21 MB of this page. Each one is another DNS lookup, TLS handshake and point of failure you do not control.

Fix: Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

IMAGESmedia3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzc…
992 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/4713-d2871874ef79c…
940 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/2668-2e60506111a0b…
940 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/933-4c7810013b8e7a…
937 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/1f006d11-2a4305ce3…
936 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/620c25d9-00c13bb54…
934 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/8928-f7b2087e20768…
933 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/1798-74a6109bef6f8…
929 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/2616-d463e497c2d86…
926 ms
JAVASCRIPTgiphy.com/_next/static/chunks/2011-4924ff97279ad…
926 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://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/3ohzdIuqJoo8QdKlnW/100.gif 3rd partyimages200992 ms1.18 MB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/4713-d2871874ef79cbcc.jsjavascript200940 ms14.4 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/2668-2e60506111a0bc19.jsjavascript200940 ms6.8 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/933-4c7810013b8e7a21.jsjavascript200937 ms3.3 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/1f006d11-2a4305ce3e48d155.jsjavascript200936 ms29.9 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/620c25d9-00c13bb546bf829c.jsjavascript200934 ms32.1 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/8928-f7b2087e20768f23.jsjavascript200933 ms6.3 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/1798-74a6109bef6f8f6d.jsjavascript200929 ms22.3 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/2616-d463e497c2d86074.jsjavascript200926 ms8.3 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/2011-4924ff97279adb11.jsjavascript200926 ms4.7 KB
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/1ojn1S7BTXUry8elNi/giphy.gif 3rd partyimages200924 ms10.53 MB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/87c73c54-127ce0dff8388735.jsjavascript200921 ms64.4 KB
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/main-app-66028c88526a96a8.jsjavascript200916 ms287 B
https://giphy.com/_next/static/chunks/7730-89ae1a37faa99ae4.jsjavascript200908 ms68.1 KB
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/Nxh2kkcKsz1OC736jL/giphy.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms4.97 MB
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/nPIjC3r7sQfsKZCq7P/giphy.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms3.49 MB
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/R5YHXl3BaWG3xeIg9z/giphy.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms2.04 MB
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/xT9IgG50Fb7Mi0prBC/giphy.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms1.32 MB
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/1J3WkjwcOrkTf5NWcM/200.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms927.5 KB
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/I5knStfzLRXKJ9QLVf/giphy.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms697.5 KB
https://giphy.com/static/img/giphy-logo.webpother200907 ms411.9 KB
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/1fMjj5j2Z7chq/200.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms406.4 KB
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/Lw73Hgs8CS3MtFJrgZ/200.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms397.6 KB
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/OuQmhmAAdJFLi/giphy.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms183.9 KB
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3hmZ3VjNnMzczJ1MjNrMjNnbHlpdDI2YXdlamltejdudTRsN211MCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/hvjwXHIDVWM2wXnhc2/giphy.gif 3rd partyimages200907 ms120.0 KB
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