www.freecodecamp.org speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:00 UTC. Grade C (74/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 100 ms 19%
- TCP connect 64 ms 12%
- Server wait 374 ms 70%
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 538 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 5.17 MB over 26 request(s). Fonts files are 87% of it, so subset the fonts and stop preloading the weights you do not render.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 2.44 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 223 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. 26 request(s) in total, 5.17 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 538 ms. Of that, 374 ms was the server thinking and 164 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.
Total page weight
high impactThe page transfers 5.17 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 81.6 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: app-c9550d9450099d33b98b.js (463.8 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
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://www.freecodecamp.org/static/NotoSansJP-Regular-36dfa43ca2068ced0078458966d5c861.woff | fonts | 200 | 1.03 s | 2.01 MB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/icons/icon-72x72.png | images | 200 | 1.00 s | 2.9 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/icons/icon-48x48.png | images | 200 | 995 ms | 1.8 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/Lato-Black-efe7c183457352448e1e82e30ee3e142.woff | fonts | 200 | 988 ms | 35.2 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/NotoSansArabic-Light-29c28f1c5ece1b2be3889e63f3f9207b.woff | fonts | 200 | 982 ms | 76.9 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/NotoSansArabic-Bold-b2991670b02c7fc8bbce4f9b3b2bdaec.woff | fonts | 200 | 976 ms | 76.6 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/icons/icon-512x512.png | images | 200 | 971 ms | 22.3 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/manifest.webmanifest | other | 200 | 971 ms | 318 B |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/icons/icon-144x144.png | images | 200 | 969 ms | 5.6 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/NotoSansArabic-Black-0c2f873d06c7dd38c0ce9242f10ba5d5.woff | fonts | 200 | 967 ms | 77.3 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/icons/icon-384x384.png | images | 200 | 966 ms | 18.0 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/icons/icon-192x192.png | images | 200 | 966 ms | 7.7 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/NotoSansArabic-Regular-d99c6e61f3bae8203321cba30364386f.woff | fonts | 200 | 953 ms | 74.5 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/NotoSansJP-Light-e8b70ba5fe17a3e699bf7e8542e777d6.woff | fonts | 200 | 951 ms | 2.00 MB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/app-c9550d9450099d33b98b.js | javascript | 200 | 950 ms | 463.8 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/icons/icon-256x256.png | images | 200 | 937 ms | 10.9 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/icons/icon-96x96.png | images | 200 | 924 ms | 3.7 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/640bf66f-c471573bfc55f8d210a8.js | javascript | 200 | 909 ms | 5.2 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/favicon-32x32.png | images | 200 | 907 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/73ca4de5-b6c3579d9f27c62e9e79.js | javascript | 200 | 894 ms | 71.8 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/Lato-Bold-ba3a83adcb94357fc42f762985e4d3df.woff | fonts | 200 | 885 ms | 35.9 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/webpack-runtime-a0d45faa52db28742954.js | javascript | 200 | 877 ms | 5.7 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/Lato-Regular-77ca2742388f408c3be7d0ec3e7dc392.woff | fonts | 200 | 870 ms | 36.6 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/Lato-Italic-251de5f48806485e4c5a8a2558f9b377.woff | fonts | 200 | 869 ms | 38.2 KB |
| https://www.freecodecamp.org/static/Lato-Light-91308c0216b40aad16036f1394b98237.woff | fonts | 200 | 869 ms | 34.2 KB |
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