www.documentcloud.org/home speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:04 UTC. Grade A (92/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 81 ms 27%
- TCP connect 29 ms 10%
- Server wait 192 ms 64%
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 first byte arrived in 302 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 106.1 KB over 20 request(s). Javascript files are 73% 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.
- 73% 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 164 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
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.
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.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 20 request(s) in total, 106.1 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact7 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 script(s), 7 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.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact2 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.
Strict-Transport-Security
low impactHSTS 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
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.documentcloud.org/home/url | html | 404 | 840 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/ | other | 307 | 829 ms | 0 B |
| https://widgets.givebutter.com/latest.umd.cjs?acct=bxj57JvZkwOILwSl&p=other 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 823 ms | 77.0 KB |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/fonts-latin.css | html | 404 | 812 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/_app/immutable/assets/Wired_logo.svg.COkMT53x.png | html | 404 | 784 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/_app/immutable/assets/CNN.svg.D9qXnu4M.png | html | 404 | 770 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/_app/immutable/assets/The_Guardian_2018.svg.DtvZtVVf.png | html | 404 | 766 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/script_url | html | 404 | 763 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/_app/immutable/assets/The_Logo_of_The_Washington_Post_Newspaper.svg.Br8oNxa4.png | html | 404 | 761 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/_app/immutable/assets/Los_Angeles_Times.svg.DNjaz64T.png | html | 404 | 760 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/_app/immutable/assets/33.BYjVXjY9.css | css | 200 | 742 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/_app/immutable/assets/SearchEditor.ggxiNDim.css | css | 200 | 741 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/_app/immutable/assets/Logo.Slgxkf1X.css | css | 200 | 734 ms | 112 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/_app/immutable/assets/The_Boston_Globe.svg.C9QRIKb6.png | html | 404 | 732 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/home/_app/immutable/assets/404_Media_logo.svg.BN1wwV8W.png | html | 404 | 726 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/_app/immutable/assets/Button.R8n1rIW1.css | css | 200 | 710 ms | 767 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/_app/immutable/assets/0.C1m6IfZY.css | css | 200 | 707 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/_app/immutable/assets/Toaster.DsM-9VH0.css | css | 200 | 703 ms | 605 B |
| https://www.documentcloud.org/favicon.png | images | 200 | 702 ms | 5.7 KB |
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