www.caranddriver.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:34 UTC. Grade A (96/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.caranddriver.com/

20 October 2026 at 14:34 UTC · Free test · report pt_49c2cc3c431b
Grade
A
96/100
Performance98/100
Structure92/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)267 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.28 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight706.0 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document135.5 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3server not sent
Third-party564.4 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 56 ms 21%
  • TCP connect 51 ms 19%
  • Server wait 161 ms 60%

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

First bytefaster than 81% of 4,999 pages tested here267 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightheavier than 52% of 4,999 pages tested here706.0 KB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 84% of 4,999 pages tested here1.28 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends more requests than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here26 against a median of 26

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 267 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 706.0 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 81% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • 80% 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 704 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.010), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 745 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.

Fix first: Third-party weight - Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.

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.

Mobile screenshot of www.caranddriver.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 209.2 KB · page is 6000 px tall

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.

Largest contentful paint704 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.010under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time745 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint704 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight5.72 MB521 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests25blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint704 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.010
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time745 ms
Poorgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests
570.4 KB 81%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 706.0 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Third-party weight

medium impact

1 third-party host(s) serve 564.4 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.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 135.5 KB. A bloated document delays every other request, because nothing else can start until it is parsed.

Fix: Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.

Avoid extra redirects

medium impact

1 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

IMAGEShips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/1dfd0c52-e802-4e31-b99…
1.01 s
IMAGEShips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/fdc7522c-47a5-481e-b43…
923 ms
IMAGEShips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/ce99841a-b30c-442b-9d2…
912 ms
IMAGEShips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2024-ford-ranger-v6-11…
892 ms
IMAGESwww.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons…
891 ms
IMAGESwww.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons…
887 ms
IMAGESwww.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons…
879 ms
IMAGESwww.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons…
879 ms
IMAGESwww.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons…
875 ms
IMAGESwww.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons…
874 ms

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

RequestTypeStatusTimeSize
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/1dfd0c52-e802-4e31-b994-2e1b4a966aa0.jpg?crop=0.563xw:1xh;0.01xw,0xh&resize=480:* 3rd partyimages2001.01 s53.7 KB
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/fdc7522c-47a5-481e-b43a-fec39433bc99.jpg?crop=0.667xw:1xh;0.153xw,0xh&resize=480:* 3rd partyimages200923 ms38.2 KB
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/ce99841a-b30c-442b-9d22-2552a0c02bb8.jpg?crop=0.5597426470588235xw:1xh;center,top&resize=480:* 3rd partyimages200912 ms47.3 KB
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2024-ford-ranger-v6-113-6733c8a0368f5.jpg?crop=0.667xw:1xh;0.194xw,0xh&resize=480:* 3rd partyimages200892 ms36.4 KB
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/caret-left-regular.5546078.svgimages200891 ms250 B
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/arrow-left-regular.dc4f48a.svgimages200887 ms254 B
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/social/microphone-regular.31a916f.svg?primary=%2523000000images200879 ms321 B
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/magnifying-glass-regular.94a1e62.svg?primary=%2523ffffffimages200879 ms294 B
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/social/youtube.ce3e1ae.svg?primary=%2523000000images200875 ms491 B
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/social/x.3361b6d.svg?primary=%2523000000images200874 ms327 B
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/1dfd0c52-e802-4e31-b994-2e1b4a966aa0.jpg?crop=0.563xw:1xh;0.01xw,0xh&resize=640:* 3rd partyimages200873 ms89.1 KB
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/images/privacy/opt-out.0b0a6a3.svgimages200873 ms410 B
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/social/facebook-fill.0a8acf3.svg?primary=%2523000000images200871 ms361 B
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/x-regular.e414d97.svgimages200869 ms260 B
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/search.f1c199c.svg?primary=%2523D4D4D4images200862 ms345 B
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/82375eb2-a8bf-4d80-bd4a-1d5de6b0b277.jpg?crop=0.519xw:0.777xh;0.232xw,0xh&resize=480:* 3rd partyimages200857 ms17.7 KB
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/82375eb2-a8bf-4d80-bd4a-1d5de6b0b277.jpg?crop=0.519xw:0.777xh;0.232xw,0xh&resize=640:* 3rd partyimages200855 ms28.8 KB
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/social/instagram.f282b14.svg?primary=%2523000000images200853 ms1.0 KB
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/social/tiktok.603c377.svg?primary=%2523000000images200852 ms331 B
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/ce99841a-b30c-442b-9d22-2552a0c02bb8.jpg?crop=0.5597426470588235xw:1xh;center,top&resize=640:* 3rd partyimages200851 ms75.8 KB
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/caranddriver/static/images/logos/logo.68b8e69.svg?primary=navLogoColorimages200846 ms1.2 KB
https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/close.38e3324.svg?primary=%2523ffffffimages200844 ms290 B
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/066822e5-3c65-4458-9c1a-87c5200d6597.jpg?crop=0.394xw:0.592xh;0.503xw,0.15xh&resize=640:* 3rd partyimages200838 ms52.2 KB
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/fdc7522c-47a5-481e-b43a-fec39433bc99.jpg?crop=0.667xw:1xh;0.153xw,0xh&resize=640:* 3rd partyimages200835 ms66.1 KB
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2024-ford-ranger-v6-113-6733c8a0368f5.jpg?crop=0.667xw:1xh;0.194xw,0xh&resize=640:* 3rd partyimages200835 ms59.1 KB
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