www.hardened-php.net speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:15 UTC. Grade B (85/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 94 ms 23%
- TCP connect 160 ms 39%
- Server wait 160 ms 39%
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 414 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 92.4 KB over 11 request(s), which is lean. Css files are 52% of it, so split the stylesheet so the first screen does not download the whole site.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 1.17 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.001), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
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.
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, 92.4 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 414 ms. Of that, 160 ms was the server thinking and 254 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 impact9 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (3 script(s), 6 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.
Serve everything over HTTPS
high impactThe page itself is served over plain HTTP.
Fix: Redirect HTTP to HTTPS at the server, and rewrite the remaining http:// asset references so nothing depends on browser upgrading.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| http://www.hardened-php.net/r | html | 301 | 465 ms | 0 B |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/css/blocks.css?ver=20240812 | css | 200 | 400 ms | 1.8 KB |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/fonts/font-open-sans.css?ver=20230328 | css | 200 | 383 ms | 831 B |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1 | javascript | 200 | 382 ms | 28.9 KB |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/style.css?ver=20241112 | css | 200 | 382 ms | 7.6 KB |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-includes/blocks/paragraph/style.min.css?ver=7.1.3 | css | 200 | 356 ms | 282 B |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-includes/css/dashicons.min.css?ver=7.1.3 | css | 200 | 355 ms | 34.3 KB |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-includes/css/admin-bar.min.css?ver=7.1.3 | css | 200 | 355 ms | 3.7 KB |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=3.4.1 | javascript | 200 | 354 ms | 4.6 KB |
| http://www.hardened-php.net/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/js/navigation.js?ver=20141205 | javascript | 200 | 354 ms | 574 B |
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