bitly.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:34 UTC. Grade A (94/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 40 ms 16%
- TCP connect 25 ms 10%
- Server wait 179 ms 73%
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 244 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 511.9 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 86% 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.
- 86% 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 584 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 593 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 511.9 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact9 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 8 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact1 third-party host(s) serve 439.9 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://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/25171513/bowl-kettle.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 967 ms | 3.4 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/30192741/blog_art-of-link_0sm.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 966 ms | 37.4 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16230904/canva-1.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 966 ms | 5.4 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/28194726/product-qr-codes.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 13.9 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29164245/bitly-star-anim.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16230846/smalls-1.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 959 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/28195024/product-analytics.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 955 ms | 4.7 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29193155/qr-scan-insights-1-352.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 951 ms | 15.5 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/28195011/product-links-1.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 951 ms | 8.8 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/15150829/slider-consumer-goods-768x587.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 948 ms | 50.5 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16230847/curology-1.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 945 ms | 2.5 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16230847/novasol-1.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 945 ms | 1.9 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16230904/hubspot.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 944 ms | 4.0 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16230847/rad-bikes-1.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 944 ms | 2.5 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/29153955/check-animated.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 943 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16230903/shopify.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 941 ms | 4.2 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/29153954/integrations-animated.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 941 ms | 1.6 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16230847/new-york-times-1.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 939 ms | 3.1 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/15150831/slider-hospitality-768x587.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 938 ms | 68.6 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/15150833/slider-media-entertainment-768x587.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 938 ms | 61.4 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/15150828/slider-retail-768x587.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 938 ms | 60.2 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/22164005/slider-tech-hardware-1-768x587.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 938 ms | 58.7 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/29153957/qrc-link-animated.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 938 ms | 23.2 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/29153951/paying-customers-animated.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 938 ms | 2.0 KB |
| https://mkt-bitly-media.qrcg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/29153953/target-animated.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 938 ms | 1.5 KB |
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