techcrunch.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC. Grade C (75/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 52 ms 20%
- TCP connect 46 ms 18%
- Server wait 158 ms 62%
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
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What these numbers mean
- The first byte arrived in 255 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 12.76 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 100% 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.
Fix first: Image delivery and format - Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.
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Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 12.76 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Image delivery and format
high impact10 image(s) over 200 KB and 13 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.
Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.
Render-blocking resources
high impact21 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (7 script(s), 14 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
high impactThe page transfers 12.76 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 63.9 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
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://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Blackwall-co-founders-l-r-Denis-Prochko-and-Nik-Rozenberg.png?w=563 | images | 200 | 849 ms | 2.51 MB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-649365936.jpg | images | 200 | 831 ms | 247.6 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Otter-feat.jpg | images | 200 | 829 ms | 1.16 MB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Yelp-waitlist.jpg?w=668 | images | 200 | 820 ms | 35.3 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Memberships-1.jpg | images | 200 | 800 ms | 836.1 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Yelp-waitlist.jpg | images | 200 | 797 ms | 393.4 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-2205217071.jpg | images | 200 | 793 ms | 312.5 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oura_Ring_5_Product-1_Collection.png?w=563 | images | 200 | 793 ms | 57.9 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oura_Ring_5_Product-1_Collection.png | images | 200 | 790 ms | 1.97 MB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-649365936.jpg?w=562 | images | 200 | 789 ms | 22.5 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Otter-feat.jpg?w=668 | images | 200 | 786 ms | 29.9 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_1933.jpg?w=500 | images | 200 | 785 ms | 22.4 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Memberships-1.jpg?w=668 | images | 200 | 781 ms | 22.0 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Blackwall-co-founders-l-r-Denis-Prochko-and-Nik-Rozenberg.png | images | 200 | 777 ms | 3.51 MB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/tc-lockup-hp.svg | images | 200 | 771 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2236544023.jpeg | images | 200 | 770 ms | 695.8 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/cyberatttack.jpg?w=612 | images | 200 | 768 ms | 119.7 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/tc-logo-mobile.svg | images | 200 | 768 ms | 249 B |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/cyberatttack.jpg | images | 200 | 767 ms | 123.8 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-2205217071.jpg?w=668 | images | 200 | 767 ms | 100.8 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tolan.jpg | images | 200 | 767 ms | 38.1 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tolan.jpg?w=668 | images | 200 | 767 ms | 20.8 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/themes/tc-24/assets/svg/arrow-up-right.svg | images | 200 | 767 ms | 180 B |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_1933.jpg | images | 200 | 766 ms | 514.7 KB |
| https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2236544023.jpeg?w=563 | images | 200 | 766 ms | 37.6 KB |
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