hackaday.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:43 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 49 ms 26%
- TCP connect 30 ms 16%
- Server wait 110 ms 58%
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 server answered in 189 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 1.61 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 84% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 24% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
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.
The headless browser did not capture this page when the test ran, so only the server measurements are shown.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 1.61 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Image delivery and format
high impact1 image(s) over 200 KB and 6 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 impact4 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (3 script(s), 1 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
medium impactThe page transfers 1.61 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 18.5 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Cache static assets
medium impact1 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact5 third-party host(s) serve 395.6 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.
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.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-5XSENH6S7G 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.05 s | 176.6 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/memory-thumb.jpg?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 1.00 s | 66.8 KB |
| https://use.typekit.net/mpm6gph.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 984 ms | 6.8 KB |
| https://web.cmp.usercentrics.eu/ui/loader.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 983 ms | 19.5 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FPGAchronicles_thumbnail.png?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 981 ms | 155.1 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/themes/hackaday-2/img/logo.png | images | 200 | 976 ms | 18.8 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/nunessq.png?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 967 ms | 127.5 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/esp32-linux-thumbnail.jpg?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 963 ms | 84.9 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/_static/??-eJyNzNEOgjAMheEXslQRwpXxWZYyoBt0kxaVt4fEB3DJufzOj58MlMS8GNrkF684OYqudzvUGBTFvXl0xkmqoBf8xzVyhpklwpBoUxj4W/abmWKRDK/Nr3vVJ/utLE8r5zI6+nS65/K4dV3Tts21vocDTeBqMA== | javascript | 200 | 956 ms | 14.5 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/_static/??-eJzTLy/QzcxLzilNSS3WzwKiwtLUokoopZebmaeXVayjj0+Rbm5melFiSSpUsX2uraG5paGxgamliUUWAK+RIic= | javascript | 200 | 954 ms | 34.5 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/supercon-x-initial-original_thumbnail.png?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 952 ms | 229.7 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/darkarts-thumb.jpg?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 952 ms | 123.9 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/cdn.hackaday.io/images/resize/360x270/3493431780073996430.png?resize=387%2C270&ssl=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 46.6 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/cdn.hackaday.io/images/resize/360x270/174071790636768878.png?resize=360%2C270&ssl=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 31.6 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/cdn.hackaday.io/images/resize/360x270/3004861787570164637.jpeg?resize=360%2C270&ssl=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 29.8 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/cdn.hackaday.io/images/resize/360x270/6582981778090764242.jpg?resize=360%2C270&ssl=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 22.7 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/cdn.hackaday.io/images/resize/360x270/4949851776970476100.jpeg?resize=387%2C270&ssl=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 21.9 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/cdn.hackaday.io/images/resize/360x270/2485101791792822039.jpg?resize=360%2C270&ssl=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 20.3 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/cdn.hackaday.io/images/resize/360x270/2025081792076186624.jpg?resize=360%2C270&ssl=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 10.8 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/cdn.hackaday.io/images/resize/360x270/4821521792081293509.jpg?resize=360%2C270&ssl=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 8.9 KB |
| https://analytics.supplyframe.com/trackingservlet/impression?action=pageImpression&zone=HDay_page&extra=title%3D2026+Hackaday+Supercon%3A+Workshops+Are+Open%21 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 43 B |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/links-thumb.jpg?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 951 ms | 121.8 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EarlyRadio-thumb.jpg?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 951 ms | 114.2 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/microphone-thumb.jpg?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 951 ms | 83.3 KB |
| https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scrappy-thumb.jpg?w=600&h=600 | images | 200 | 951 ms | 54.7 KB |
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