www.aarp.org speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:21 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 91 ms 32%
- TCP connect 43 ms 15%
- Server wait 151 ms 53%
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 286 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 1.28 MB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 74% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 93% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
The headless browser did not capture this page when the test ran, so only the server measurements are shown.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 1.28 MB 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 not compressed. That is 131.2 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 impact6 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (3 script(s), 3 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.
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 1.28 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 86.8 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact7 third-party host(s) serve 1.19 MB 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.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: launch-ENfc31ab1bac944ca8866743454782e0b0.min.js (288.8 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
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://cdn.aarp.net/etc.clientlibs/uxdia/clientlibs/generated/foundation/vendors.rev202610060227.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.15 s | 67.9 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc.clientlibs/uxdia/clientlibs/generated/foundation/reusable-foundation-main.rev202610060227.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.15 s | 139.4 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc.clientlibs/uxdia/clientlibs/generated/shared/clientlib-icons.rev202610060227.min.js 3rd party | html | 404 | 1.14 s | 0 B |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc.clientlibs/uxdia/clientlibs/generated/foundation/reusable-foundation-main.rev202610060227.min.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 1.12 s | 237.2 KB |
| https://www.aarp.org/etc/clientlibs/202610060227/content/aarpe/en/home.advancehtml-css.rev1792427568379.rev202610060227.min.css | css | 200 | 1.10 s | 2.5 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp/demo/home/icon-A-white.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.09 s | 572 B |
| https://www.aarp.org/etc/clientlibs/202610060227/content/aarpe/en/home.advancehtml-js.rev1792427568379.rev202610060227.min.js | javascript | 200 | 1.09 s | 394 B |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/202609221817/aarp/css/coi.dam-css.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 1.08 s | 3.2 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc.clientlibs/uxdia/clientlibs/generated/shared/clientlib-icons.rev202610060227.min.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 1.08 s | 2.3 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc.clientlibs/uxdia/clientlibs/generated/foundation/rf-above-the-fold-ads.rev202610060227.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.07 s | 37.1 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc.clientlibs/staying-sharp/clientlibs/js/onetrust.rev202610060227.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.06 s | 4.3 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp-icons/start.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.06 s | 661 B |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc.clientlibs/aarp-foundation/clientlibs/payload-creator-param.rev202610060227.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.05 s | 5.6 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc/cloudsettings/default/contexthub.kernel.rev2026.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.04 s | 112.2 KB |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp/demo/home/icon-star-white.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 180 B |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp/demo/home/icon-member-card-white.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.01 s | 500 B |
| https://cdn.aarp.net/etc/uxdia/images/uxdia-spinner.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.01 s | 362 B |
| https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 982 ms | 131.2 KB |
| https://rum.hlx.page/.rum/@adobe/helix-rum-js@%5E2/dist/rum-standalone.js 3rd party | other | 400 | 982 ms | 0 B |
| https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 980 ms | 92.6 KB |
| https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-ENfc31ab1bac944ca8866743454782e0b0.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 975 ms | 288.8 KB |
| https://01.cdn.mediatradecraft.com/aarp/main/main.js?template=aarp-uxdia-reusability-template 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 972 ms | 65.7 KB |
| https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/uxdia/icons/apple-touch-icon.png | images | 200 | 966 ms | 2.8 KB |
| https://www.aarp.org/etc/everywhere/images/favicon.ico | images | 200 | 955 ms | 545 B |
| https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/gpp.stub.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 941 ms | 27.7 KB |
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