metal-archives.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:29 UTC. Grade A (91/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 75 ms 21%
- TCP connect 3 ms 1%
- Server wait 273 ms 78%
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 351 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 474.1 KB over 6 request(s), which is lean. Images files are 73% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives zstd-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 732 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.041), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 42 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.
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. 6 request(s) in total, 474.1 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Image delivery and format
high impact1 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 impact4 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (2 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.
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://metal-archives.com/min/index.php?g=css&v=125 | css | 200 | 727 ms | 11.4 KB |
| https://metal-archives.com/images/ozzy.webp | images | 200 | 517 ms | 345.0 KB |
| https://metal-archives.com/min/index.php?g=js&v=127 | javascript | 200 | 401 ms | 105.9 KB |
| https://www.metal-archives.com/images/loading.gif 3rd party | images | 200 | 295 ms | 379 B |
| https://metal-archives.com/cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js | html | 404 | 246 ms | 0 B |
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