www.meta.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC. Grade B (84/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 41 ms 7%
- TCP connect 69 ms 11%
- Server wait 519 ms 83%
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 took 628 ms. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
- The page transfers 636.9 KB over 11 request(s), which is lean. Css files are 54% of it, so split the stylesheet so the first screen does not download the whole site.
- The HTML itself arrives zstd-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 89% 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 1.69 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.047), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 267 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Server response time (TTFB) - Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.
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. 11 request(s) in total, 636.9 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 628 ms. Of that, 519 ms was the server thinking and 110 ms was connection setup. A first byte under 400 ms is what a visitor feels as instant.
Fix: Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.
Render-blocking resources
high impact10 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (9 script(s), 1 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.
TLS certificate validity
high impactThe certificate for www.meta.com has 7 day(s) left.
Fix: Renew automatically (certbot with a working renewal timer) and alert on the certificate, not on the renew command, so a silent failure is caught weeks before a browser warning.
Third-party weight
medium impact2 third-party host(s) serve 564.0 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.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v5/y3/l/0,cross/nuUPXmTmVTFa1oYwZdDB-55cyBn-Ba9OLTV2qD9LDXAOgrQ0z2sCscvfgQe914iiBfONMKn3YhINqniUF1YeWlgMiKOywvBntZWU49pVNahkCkFP8srPUTTtQwoiedi7S261.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 620 ms | 341.2 KB |
| https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/yQ/r/0eWKxz9kEoF.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 567 ms | 1.4 KB |
| https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/elementpath/media/?media_id=1640876397643578&version=1789440710&transcode_extension=webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 552 ms | 7.4 KB |
| https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/yf/r/-7pQO6hUGK_.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 542 ms | 2.6 KB |
| https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/elementpath/media/?media_id=2230808311202778&version=1790092279&transcode_extension=webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 540 ms | 13.7 KB |
| https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/elementpath/media/?media_id=1015520448179716&version=1790089128&transcode_extension=webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 536 ms | 3.8 KB |
| https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/elementpath/media/?media_id=1580554946861598&version=1790089128&transcode_extension=webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 532 ms | 5.8 KB |
| https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/y5/r/m4nf26cLQxS.ico 3rd party | images | 200 | 514 ms | 5.4 KB |
| https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/yQ/r/-pkMfchyeAZ.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 490 ms | 178.9 KB |
| https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/y9/r/tL_v571NdZ0.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 490 ms | 3.8 KB |
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