www.4shared.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:47 UTC. Grade A (90/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 42 ms 12%
- TCP connect 63 ms 18%
- Server wait 242 ms 70%
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 348 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 357.7 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 85% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 85% 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 668 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.006), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 92 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
Fix first: Compress text responses - Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
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, 357.7 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Compress text responses
high impact1 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is compressed. That is 42.3 KB of compressible text.
Fix: Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
Render-blocking resources
high impact5 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (3 script(s), 2 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.
Cache static assets
medium impact1 asset(s) answer without a Cache-Control max-age, so browsers revalidate them on every visit.
Fix: Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.
Third-party weight
medium impact4 third-party host(s) serve 305.2 KB 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.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact1 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.
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://static.4shared.com/js/authScripts.4min.js?ver=-190652857 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.01 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/PopupModule.4min.js?ver=-1677196418 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.01 s | 1.2 KB |
| https://serv90.com/ab47fe78.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 993 ms | 42.3 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/headerSearch.4min.js?ver=613305469 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 990 ms | 2.4 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/indexNew.4min.js?ver=1944601513 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 990 ms | 637 B |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/batch/addToMyAccount.4min.js?ver=1449118452 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 968 ms | 2.1 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/batch/restBatch.4min.js?ver=-293660606 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 967 ms | 376 B |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/plugins/jquery.tipTip.4min.js?ver=424755820 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 952 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/plugins/jquery.cookie.4min.js?ver=823523918 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 952 ms | 421 B |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/utils.4min.js?ver=1470246140 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 949 ms | 9.3 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/plugins/favicon.4min.js?ver=589791203 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 949 ms | 713 B |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.4min.js?ver=1965676176 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 944 ms | 35.7 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/Events.4min.js?ver=-1265666699 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 944 ms | 315 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-L27DQL6RCD 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 931 ms | 176.4 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/jquery/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.4min.js?ver=-1518983214 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 924 ms | 3.2 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/bottomSheets/BS_signIn.4min.js?ver=-468858635 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 923 ms | 7.7 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/notifyBlock.4min.js?ver=-1728458541 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 923 ms | 752 B |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/plugins/jquery.timeago.4min.js?ver=1007035806 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 911 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/plugins/timeago_i18n/jquery.timeago.en.4min.js?ver=748621410 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 910 ms | 42 B |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/plugins/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js?ver=-2016413654 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 906 ms | 9.6 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/plugins/jquery.localStorage.4min.js?ver=-1535072197 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 903 ms | 1017 B |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/headerNew.4min.js?ver=-1410673390 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 898 ms | 4.5 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/addToLibrary.4min.js?ver=102102918 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 896 ms | 1.6 KB |
| https://static.4shared.com/js/bottomSheets/bottomsheets.4min.js?ver=1594108648 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 896 ms | 425 B |
| https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?render=explicit 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 875 ms | 610 B |
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