www.unicef.org 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://www.unicef.org/

20 October 2026 at 13:04 UTC · Free test · report pt_79bcb8a23b0a
Grade
A
91/100
Performance98/100
Structure80/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)284 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.25 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight878.5 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document34.2 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3cloudflare

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 76 ms 27%
  • TCP connect 45 ms 16%
  • Server wait 164 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

First bytefaster than 78% of 4,999 pages tested here284 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightheavier than 59% of 4,999 pages tested here878.5 KB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 85% of 4,999 pages tested here1.25 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 284 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 878.5 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 83% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • The largest element painted at 672 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.005), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 260 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.

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.

Screenshot

What the page looks like

Loaded in headless Chromium on this server. Click an image to open it full size.

Desktop screenshot of www.unicef.org
Desktop 1366 × 768 · 1.16 MB · page is 4529 px tall
Mobile screenshot of www.unicef.org
Mobile 390 × 844 · 268.6 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 paint672 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.005under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time260 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint548 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight3.06 MB122 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests3blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint672 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.005
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time260 ms
Needs improvementgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 17 requests
725.4 KB 83%
Javascript 8 requests
118.9 KB 14%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 878.5 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Image delivery and format

high impact

1 image(s) over 200 KB and 0 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 impact

10 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 9 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 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

IMAGESwww.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/publi…
965 ms
IMAGESwww.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/publi…
960 ms
IMAGESwww.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/publi…
958 ms
IMAGESwww.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/publi…
958 ms
JAVASCRIPTwww.unicef.org/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js
957 ms
IMAGESwww.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/publi…
955 ms
JAVASCRIPTwww.unicef.org/modules/contrib/google_tag/js/gtm.js
945 ms
JAVASCRIPTwww.unicef.org/themes/custom/unicef_base/components/j…
944 ms
JAVASCRIPTwww.unicef.org/libraries/klaro/dist/klaro-no-translat…
933 ms
IMAGESwww.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/media_banne…
931 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://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/20260916_Yemen_1.webp?itok=u4FSZvGrimages200965 ms11.4 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/UNI1011279.webp?itok=L8Hgb21Ximages200960 ms17.1 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/NewCapture.PNG.webp?itok=XKYw8bCRimages200958 ms21.2 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Screenshot%202026-10-15%20090626.webp?itok=gzAQ3ND1images200958 ms18.3 KB
https://www.unicef.org/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=11.3.16_2026_Oct_20javascript200957 ms26.8 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Web%20feature%20image%20-%20health%20advocacy%20bot%283%29.webp?itok=eyxnqrQFimages200955 ms23.0 KB
https://www.unicef.org/modules/contrib/google_tag/js/gtm.js?v=11.3.16_2026_Oct_20javascript200945 ms574 B
https://www.unicef.org/themes/custom/unicef_base/components/js/init-blazy.min.js?v=11.3.16_2026_Oct_20javascript200944 ms523 B
https://www.unicef.org/libraries/klaro/dist/klaro-no-translations-no-css.js?v=11.3.16_2026_Oct_20javascript200933 ms20.3 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/media_banner/public/UNI846333.webp?itok=E8OeNRVOimages200931 ms388.7 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/js/js_UEv3jIQIvvsNnRjRs6pp_PWhM-ACdJYB7hFk3uo2QEw.js?scope=header&delta=0&language=en&theme=unicef_base&include=eJyNk42uszAIhm9ITy-poRWVMyxNwf18V386dXMuW_IlhvA-LyUKFcgB-YElADcBzbB4vGZR7HxPXKU6mE28zmEi-1YyYMJy78Dw7-aWuOWRQZVJbdMs0G1pFr7VBo9TuchEipsq0G_ZBUNuOjBguGFxAUc4kxR9YSNyxtIMIgOjNxjcUMO7_oFfuB7h1JwYirglNopQ4ughk79_c5QpMxq6L7zREQraSOqe2SeWKZ6w4LVOKgGH2UzS_xdeailXwy3xZ5nfnChi7wMougDx1JrUJx_5soRXghOWuqh4a4Gx2MGbgNIRYEfQBkh1sR-MM3UoRy4KFA8oSYftsvtXuk7zDTFGK2_HVSIBt8t4joZ1n97MxiIh7PC-J0mYzK_F7gvf6wu6nq4-ibcCSRmM5DmWDia3pzvdLqG6PX2YfczuTHjRNkuen_tZ79yreDgqXHxBndl0G1S7yrZ2r79YGnC9JX_clnUp&burst=11.3.16_2026_Oct_20javascript200924 ms2.1 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/UNI822513.webp?itok=idVQg92eimages200920 ms16.7 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo/public/English_9.png.webp?itok=8H0Aa4orimages200919 ms25.4 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/js/js_XquL2Q--H7v1IKgNxSywlWfwDo9gCMOEUhyLn3J4tGA.js?scope=footer&delta=2&language=en&theme=unicef_base&include=eJyNk42uszAIhm9ITy-poRWVMyxNwf18V386dXMuW_IlhvA-LyUKFcgB-YElADcBzbB4vGZR7HxPXKU6mE28zmEi-1YyYMJy78Dw7-aWuOWRQZVJbdMs0G1pFr7VBo9TuchEipsq0G_ZBUNuOjBguGFxAUc4kxR9YSNyxtIMIgOjNxjcUMO7_oFfuB7h1JwYirglNopQ4ughk79_c5QpMxq6L7zREQraSOqe2SeWKZ6w4LVOKgGH2UzS_xdeailXwy3xZ5nfnChi7wMougDx1JrUJx_5soRXghOWuqh4a4Gx2MGbgNIRYEfQBkh1sR-MM3UoRy4KFA8oSYftsvtXuk7zDTFGK2_HVSIBt8t4joZ1n97MxiIh7PC-J0mYzK_F7gvf6wu6nq4-ibcCSRmM5DmWDia3pzvdLqG6PX2YfczuTHjRNkuen_tZ79yreDgqXHxBndl0G1S7yrZ2r79YGnC9JX_clnUp&burst=11.3.16_2026_Oct_20javascript200918 ms67.4 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/standard_banner/public/UNI881096.webp?itok=T8nYrppLimages200916 ms54.7 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/UNI630167.webp?itok=qHqimQQJimages200916 ms18.8 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/js/js_cIm0zri1DzR9u8CVjYhPUeTWORalD45pwpBxE-Ua2uU.js?scope=footer&delta=0&language=en&theme=unicef_base&include=eJyNk42uszAIhm9ITy-poRWVMyxNwf18V386dXMuW_IlhvA-LyUKFcgB-YElADcBzbB4vGZR7HxPXKU6mE28zmEi-1YyYMJy78Dw7-aWuOWRQZVJbdMs0G1pFr7VBo9TuchEipsq0G_ZBUNuOjBguGFxAUc4kxR9YSNyxtIMIgOjNxjcUMO7_oFfuB7h1JwYirglNopQ4ughk79_c5QpMxq6L7zREQraSOqe2SeWKZ6w4LVOKgGH2UzS_xdeailXwy3xZ5nfnChi7wMougDx1JrUJx_5soRXghOWuqh4a4Gx2MGbgNIRYEfQBkh1sR-MM3UoRy4KFA8oSYftsvtXuk7zDTFGK2_HVSIBt8t4joZ1n97MxiIh7PC-J0mYzK_F7gvf6wu6nq4-ibcCSRmM5DmWDia3pzvdLqG6PX2YfczuTHjRNkuen_tZ79yreDgqXHxBndl0G1S7yrZ2r79YGnC9JX_clnUp&burst=11.3.16_2026_Oct_20javascript200916 ms725 B
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/smallest/public/UNI289186_alt.jpg.webp?itok=0UPDw_nwimages200906 ms1.4 KB
https://www.unicef.org/parenting/sites/unicef.org.parenting/files/styles/large/public/UN0202850.jpg.webp?itok=C4yCB_H9images200902 ms25.4 KB
https://www.unicef.org/modules/contrib/google_tag/js/gtag.js?v=11.3.16_2026_Oct_20javascript200902 ms583 B
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/smallest/public/DRC-UNI231370-hero.jpg.webp?itok=BnmZwZltimages200895 ms1.8 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/inverse_logo/public/English-Inverse_39.png.webp?itok=iCH1Z0yXimages200894 ms30.2 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/UNI751091.webp?itok=ImYiMMRnimages200893 ms32.8 KB
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Thailand2.JPG.webp?itok=n1XjoVfBimages200876 ms28.7 KB
https://www.unicef.org/parenting/sites/unicef.org.parenting/files/styles/large/public/UNI289186_alt.jpg.webp?itok=d7FBf16rimages200862 ms9.8 KB
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