gnupg.org speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:53 UTC. Grade B (86/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://gnupg.org/

20 October 2026 at 14:53 UTC · Free test · report pt_6a63535842a8
Grade
B
86/100
Performance86/100
Structure86/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)703 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.44 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests6document + assets
Page weight22.8 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document5.0 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/2Apache/2.4.68 (Debian)

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 207 ms 29%
  • TCP connect 153 ms 22%
  • Server wait 343 ms 49%

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 70% of 4,999 pages tested here703 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightlighter than 94% of 4,999 pages tested here22.8 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 74% of 4,999 pages tested here1.44 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends fewer requests than 92% of 4,999 pages tested here6 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 took 703 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 22.8 KB over 6 request(s), which is lean. Images files are 63% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • The largest element painted at 864 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.004), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 3 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 gnupg.org
Mobile 390 × 844 · 89.6 KB · page is 5273 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 paint864 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.004under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time3 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint864 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight22.8 KB6 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint864 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.004
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time3 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 4 requests
14.4 KB 63%
Css 1 request
3.3 KB 15%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 6 request(s) in total, 22.8 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 703 ms. Of that, 343 ms was the server thinking and 360 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.

Cache static assets

medium impact

5 asset(s) answer without a Cache-Control max-age, so browsers revalidate them on every visit.

Fix: Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.

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

CSSgnupg.org/share/site.css
736 ms
IMAGESgnupg.org/share/cc-by-sa_80x15.png
669 ms
IMAGESgnupg.org/share/mastodon-icon.png
662 ms
IMAGESgnupg.org/share/traueranzeige-g10_v2015.png
599 ms
IMAGESgnupg.org/share/logo-gnupg-light-purple-bg.png
546 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://gnupg.org/share/site.csscss200736 ms3.3 KB
https://gnupg.org/share/cc-by-sa_80x15.pngimages200669 ms672 B
https://gnupg.org/share/mastodon-icon.pngimages200662 ms1.2 KB
https://gnupg.org/share/traueranzeige-g10_v2015.pngimages200599 ms3.7 KB
https://gnupg.org/share/logo-gnupg-light-purple-bg.pngimages200546 ms8.8 KB
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