worldpopulationreview.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:21 UTC. Grade A (96/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 66 ms 22%
- TCP connect 61 ms 20%
- Server wait 175 ms 58%
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 302 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 153.5 KB over 26 request(s).
- 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 139 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
Fix first: HTML document size - Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.
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, 153.5 KB across all of them.
Top issues
HTML document size
medium impactThe document transfers 146.5 KB. A bloated document delays every other request, because nothing else can start until it is parsed.
Fix: Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.
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://worldpopulationreview.com/_astro/logo2x.U07E811p.png | images | 200 | 929 ms | 1.4 KB |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/cn.png | images | 200 | 928 ms | 203 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/ir.png | images | 200 | 927 ms | 281 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/tz.png | images | 200 | 923 ms | 265 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/de.png | images | 200 | 918 ms | 99 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/za.png | images | 200 | 915 ms | 331 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/cd.png | images | 200 | 915 ms | 330 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/eg.png | images | 200 | 913 ms | 164 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/fr.png | images | 200 | 912 ms | 100 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/bd.png | images | 200 | 910 ms | 197 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/mx.png | images | 200 | 909 ms | 334 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/jp.png | images | 200 | 909 ms | 232 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/ru.png | images | 200 | 909 ms | 99 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/in.png | images | 200 | 906 ms | 163 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/ng.png | images | 200 | 906 ms | 93 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/tr.png | images | 200 | 905 ms | 258 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/br.png | images | 200 | 904 ms | 407 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/ph.png | images | 200 | 901 ms | 422 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/et.png | images | 200 | 898 ms | 369 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/gb.png | images | 200 | 898 ms | 337 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/th.png | images | 200 | 897 ms | 104 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/vn.png | images | 200 | 893 ms | 208 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/pk.png | images | 200 | 890 ms | 309 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/id.png | images | 200 | 873 ms | 92 B |
| https://worldpopulationreview.com/images/country-flags/h24/us.png | images | 200 | 872 ms | 349 B |
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