home.blog speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:56 UTC. Grade A (91/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 79 ms 38%
- TCP connect 24 ms 11%
- Server wait 108 ms 51%
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 210 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 321.7 KB over 22 request(s). Images files are 60% 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 1.13 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
Fix first: Render-blocking resources - 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.
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. 22 request(s) in total, 321.7 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact8 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 7 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.
Image delivery and format
medium impact0 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.
Cache static assets
medium impact7 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
low impact5 third-party host(s) serve 15.4 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.
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://home.blog/r | html | 404 | 1.05 s | 0 B |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/agi_appalachia_bierut_171120_021.jpg?w=924&h=1&crop=1 | images | 200 | 977 ms | 125.5 KB |
| https://home.blog/_static/??-eJzTLy/QTc7PK0nNK9HPKtYvyinRLSjKr6jUyyrW0QfKZeYl55SmpBaDJLMKS1OLKqGUXm5mHkFFurmZ6UWJJalQxfa5tobmRgamxgZmFpZZACbyLJI= | javascript | 200 | 906 ms | 35.9 KB |
| https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?v=noscript 3rd party | images | 200 | 901 ms | 43 B |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/agi_appalachia_bierut_171120_021.jpg?w=924&h=0&crop=1 | images | 200 | 900 ms | 49.7 KB |
| https://stats.wp.com/w.js?70 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 900 ms | 6.4 KB |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/home-icon.jpg?w=50 | images | 200 | 900 ms | 1.4 KB |
| https://0.gravatar.com/js/hovercards/hovercards.min.js?ver=202643d1133547e8a1f2801609f51cef12522abe7f6647d869e9fbc974fe356a37e613 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 891 ms | 6.8 KB |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/home-icon.jpg?w=180 | images | 200 | 881 ms | 7.1 KB |
| https://s0.wp.com/?custom-css=1&csblog=83xkp&cscache=6&csrev=90 3rd party | css | 200 | 874 ms | 1.9 KB |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/home-icon.jpg?w=32 | images | 200 | 873 ms | 969 B |
| https://home.blog/_static/??-eJyNjcEKAjEMRH/ImhVlqwfxU6TbhrZrmhTTIv69u+JFvHgZ5sHwBh7VeOGG3KB0U6nHzAoztur87cNQRNYInVBBk7tjcCE83zVz3HrVDfxvumb2MPVMAVR8dmRIougX/DhbwrK8pwNEksnROriU884e9+PJDnaYXxwFS20=&cssminify=yes | css | 200 | 868 ms | 12.4 KB |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/home-icon.jpg?w=192 | images | 200 | 867 ms | 7.9 KB |
| https://home.blog/_static/??/wp-content/mu-plugins/comment-likes/css/comment-likes.css,/i/noticons/noticons.css?m=1436783281j&cssminify=yes | css | 200 | 865 ms | 21.6 KB |
| https://home.blog/_static/??-eJx9i9EKwjAMAH/ImA0G9UX8li3EGmmT0rQO/96JL4qwtzu4w7UAmTbWhu3GmR1LX9DqQxy9PRMfyf2Ae5kofVJYC1n+G3KHknoUday8JIsbRtyqL92bIhsko7mJ6Y/ANc1S3+sln8dwGoYwTWO4vwDASU76&cssminify=yes | css | 200 | 865 ms | 10.8 KB |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/js/bilmur.min.js?i=19&m=202643 | javascript | 200 | 865 ms | 4.9 KB |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/mu-plugins/global-print/global-print.css?m=1465851035i&cssminify=yes | css | 200 | 865 ms | 1.9 KB |
| https://home.blog/_static/??/wp-content/mu-plugins/core-compat/wp-mediaelement.css,/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-bbpress-premium-themes.css?m=1432920480j&cssminify=yes | css | 200 | 865 ms | 432 B |
| https://fonts-api.wp.com/css?family=Karla%3A400%2C700%2C400italic%2C700italic&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext 3rd party | css | 200 | 865 ms | 244 B |
| https://home.blog/_static/??-eJyNjUEOwjAMwD5ECDANuCD+QtWOtEtSkWbwfMpOiBNXy5bxWSGotCgN2aHOPpEYBmXuCGYq0TD/gG22DX6F7R65a9VvqI+F1sAK1W5LgaTBDRK9/smSS2ik8nlc+bI/DqfxPB6GXX4DZtg+ZQ== | javascript | 200 | 862 ms | 8.7 KB |
| https://home.blog/wp-content/mu-plugins/gravatar-hovercards/wpgroho.js?m=1610363240i | javascript | 200 | 862 ms | 370 B |
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