www.surveymonkey.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:27 UTC. Grade B (89/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/

20 October 2026 at 12:27 UTC · Free test · report pt_7221da10dd15
Grade
B
89/100
Performance97/100
Structure77/100

11 audit(s) passed, 5 need work

First byte (TTFB)268 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.84 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight909.8 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document109.2 KBbr
ProtocolHTTP/3nginx
Third-party800.6 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 57 ms 21%
  • TCP connect 19 ms 7%
  • Server wait 192 ms 72%

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 bytefaster than 81% of 4,999 pages tested here268 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightheavier than 60% of 4,999 pages tested here909.8 KB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 50% of 4,999 pages tested here1.84 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends more requests than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here26 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 268 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 909.8 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 51% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
  • The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • 88% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
  • The largest element painted at 960 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • The main thread was blocked for 633 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.

Fix first: Render-blocking resources - 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.

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 www.surveymonkey.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 53.0 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 paint960 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.000under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time633 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint908 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight3.91 MB117 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests1blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint960 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.000
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time633 ms
Poorgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Javascript 8 requests
464.1 KB 51%
Images 17 requests
336.4 KB 37%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 909.8 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Render-blocking resources

high impact

24 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 23 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 impact

The page transfers 909.8 KB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 109.2 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

Third-party weight

medium impact

1 third-party host(s) serve 800.6 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.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 109.2 KB. A bloated document delays every other request, because nothing else can start until it is parsed.

Fix: Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.

Avoid extra redirects

medium impact

1 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

IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/ai-video-homepage-1-…
1.57 s
IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/myles-johnson-headsh…
1.53 s
IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/greyhound-logo-homep…
1.48 s
IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/matt-schoolfield-hea…
1.45 s
IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/noom-logo-homepage.webp
1.45 s
IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/greyhound-logo-homep…
1.44 s
JAVASCRIPTprod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/ch…
1.44 s
IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/insight-how-surveymo…
1.44 s
IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/noom-logo-homepage-1…
1.43 s
IMAGESprod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/me…
1.43 s

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://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/ai-video-homepage-1-643x400.webp 3rd partyimages2001.57 s21.8 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/myles-johnson-headshot-noom-homepage-400x400.webp 3rd partyimages2001.53 s12.5 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/greyhound-logo-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.48 s2.2 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/matt-schoolfield-headshot-greyhound-homepage-400x400.webp 3rd partyimages2001.45 s14.6 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/noom-logo-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.45 s1.0 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/greyhound-logo-homepage-150x114.webp 3rd partyimages2001.44 s1.1 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/chunks/4683-0365a68df3db5f3f.js 3rd partyjavascript2001.44 s158.2 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/insight-how-surveymonkey-is-building-ai-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.44 s12.6 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/noom-logo-homepage-150x70.webp 3rd partyimages2001.43 s610 B
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/media/state-of-curiosity.4c5247f7.webp 3rd partyimages2001.43 s30.2 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/meera-vaidyanathan-cpo-headshot-homepage-400x400.webp 3rd partyimages2001.43 s17.2 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/chunks/3794-a589beb464ad3ced.js 3rd partyjavascript2001.43 s65.7 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/media/employee-engagement.54e5a6bc.webp 3rd partyimages2001.41 s109.7 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/insight-cnbc-surveymonkey-american-dream-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.37 s11.0 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/insight-surveymonkey-launchpad-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.36 s12.1 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/myles-johnson-headshot-noom-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.35 s22.1 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/chunks/4bd1b696-8a4ab4fdf0ae305a.js 3rd partyjavascript2001.34 s62.0 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/matt-schoolfield-headshot-greyhound-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.33 s27.4 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/chunks/main-app-5706c81eaa48e083.js 3rd partyjavascript2001.32 s484 B
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/chunks/4b1a69f1-1ea32a8d4f6fb079.js 3rd partyjavascript2001.31 s1.9 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/chunks/6d6a6b26-b6a87332dd6954c1.js 3rd partyjavascript2001.29 s55.4 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/inside-biggest-product-evolution-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.28 s11.2 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/content/sm/meera-vaidyanathan-cpo-headshot-homepage.webp 3rd partyimages2001.28 s29.0 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/chunks/app/global-error-98b9f5cc836ae386.js 3rd partyjavascript2001.27 s3.1 KB
https://prod.smassets.net/assets/website/2.381.0/_next/static/chunks/vendors-wds-icons-dc997a9a9554f4d4.js 3rd partyjavascript2001.26 s117.4 KB
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