msu.edu speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:04 UTC. Grade A (91/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://msu.edu/

20 October 2026 at 13:04 UTC · Free test · report pt_6693b5c49a79
Grade
A
91/100
Performance92/100
Structure89/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)483 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded727 msfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests2document + assets
Page weight226 Bcompressed transfer
HTML document212 Bno compression
ProtocolHTTP/3server not sent

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 54 ms 11%
  • TCP connect 31 ms 6%
  • Server wait 398 ms 82%

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 byteslower than 54% of 4,999 pages tested here483 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightlighter than 99% of 4,999 pages tested here226 B against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 95% of 4,999 pages tested here727 ms against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends fewer requests than 96% of 4,999 pages tested here2 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 483 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 226 B over 2 request(s), which is lean.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • The largest element painted at 1.12 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.003), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 166 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.

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.

Mobile screenshot of msu.edu
Mobile 390 × 844 · 224.0 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 paint1.12 sgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.003under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time166 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint1.12 sfirst content on screen
Browser page weight8.77 MB141 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests2blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint1.12 s
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.003
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time166 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Other 1 request
14 B 6%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 2 request(s) in total, 226 B across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 483 ms. Of that, 398 ms was the server thinking and 85 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.

Mobile viewport

medium impact

No viewport meta tag, so a phone renders the desktop layout scaled down.

Fix: Add a viewport meta tag with width=device-width and an initial scale of 1.

Strict-Transport-Security

low impact

HSTS 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

OTHERmsu.edu/_Incapsula_Resource
244 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://msu.edu/_Incapsula_Resource?SWJIYLWA=5074a744e2e3d891814e9a2dace20bd4,719d34d31c8e3a6e6fffd425f7e032f3other400244 ms14 B
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