www.faa.gov speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:18 UTC. Grade A (90/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 54 ms 23%
- TCP connect 35 ms 15%
- Server wait 146 ms 62%
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 236 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 652.0 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 57% 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.
- 20% 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 260 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
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.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 652.0 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Image delivery and format
high impact1 image(s) over 200 KB and 1 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 impact7 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 6 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.
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.
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.
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.faa.gov/akam/13/2a1f9a66 | html | 404 | 1.27 s | 1.2 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/js/js_TNtYxKuENTgJF_DqJGV08scsNe3V9ZcFUAGvQGoEJC8.js?scope=header&delta=0&language=en&theme=faa&include=eJxdj1GOwzAIRC_kxEeyiE0tt8S4gKXm9qXN5mP7g2AG8ZjMRDC0bcT5ETMLhk-JReYAWmEaZ94Hof03SgPiusIdXqfeuqF0d-7PiXKsN5Y9FLaUd42VeANa1A5qvQZ8Degl5ZONCYjiqS2X5jvmu4-L9zeGG8DvtcpcyY84_LCWnfYjhDGl-uy_piGcUZUlmrRaUdLXDGpO90gdk6HnBUONG5djyQSqYZK1HfuMV_MG57Z7HA | javascript | 200 | 1.26 s | 31.3 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/styles/faa_home_topics_sub/public/2026-10/Flying-with-family.png?itok=NpdkUWeL | images | 200 | 1.11 s | 92.1 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/styles/faa_home_topics_sub/public/2026-04/DCA_homepage.jpg?itok=EGT0B6We | images | 200 | 987 ms | 14.0 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/js/js_ZGNraFKZPxw29jxnccEqqnQ3aadRqk9VoddQHkaKAVo.js?scope=footer&delta=8&language=en&theme=faa&include=eJxdj1GOwzAIRC_kxEeyiE0tt8S4gKXm9qXN5mP7g2AG8ZjMRDC0bcT5ETMLhk-JReYAWmEaZ94Hof03SgPiusIdXqfeuqF0d-7PiXKsN5Y9FLaUd42VeANa1A5qvQZ8Degl5ZONCYjiqS2X5jvmu4-L9zeGG8DvtcpcyY84_LCWnfYjhDGl-uy_piGcUZUlmrRaUdLXDGpO90gdk6HnBUONG5djyQSqYZK1HfuMV_MG57Z7HA | javascript | 200 | 982 ms | 4.4 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/js/js_jdkNH7OLq1bQcdjmYP1uF-kd9XqwOqCod8JQ2ULhoLA.js?scope=footer&delta=10&language=en&theme=faa&include=eJxdj1GOwzAIRC_kxEeyiE0tt8S4gKXm9qXN5mP7g2AG8ZjMRDC0bcT5ETMLhk-JReYAWmEaZ94Hof03SgPiusIdXqfeuqF0d-7PiXKsN5Y9FLaUd42VeANa1A5qvQZ8Degl5ZONCYjiqS2X5jvmu4-L9zeGG8DvtcpcyY84_LCWnfYjhDGl-uy_piGcUZUlmrRaUdLXDGpO90gdk6HnBUONG5djyQSqYZK1HfuMV_MG57Z7HA | javascript | 200 | 944 ms | 981 B |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/js/js_55zkl3HZ5MY2e4-D5IGmkmGWKBpwrb5ynt73jOwvS5E.js?scope=footer&delta=6&language=en&theme=faa&include=eJxdj1GOwzAIRC_kxEeyiE0tt8S4gKXm9qXN5mP7g2AG8ZjMRDC0bcT5ETMLhk-JReYAWmEaZ94Hof03SgPiusIdXqfeuqF0d-7PiXKsN5Y9FLaUd42VeANa1A5qvQZ8Degl5ZONCYjiqS2X5jvmu4-L9zeGG8DvtcpcyY84_LCWnfYjhDGl-uy_piGcUZUlmrRaUdLXDGpO90gdk6HnBUONG5djyQSqYZK1HfuMV_MG57Z7HA | javascript | 200 | 916 ms | 5.3 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/js/js_WX6Qkf0s0mJUsndXViWuUdWwCGput4388N6cMUQPt6E.js?scope=footer&delta=0&language=en&theme=faa&include=eJxdj1GOwzAIRC_kxEeyiE0tt8S4gKXm9qXN5mP7g2AG8ZjMRDC0bcT5ETMLhk-JReYAWmEaZ94Hof03SgPiusIdXqfeuqF0d-7PiXKsN5Y9FLaUd42VeANa1A5qvQZ8Degl5ZONCYjiqS2X5jvmu4-L9zeGG8DvtcpcyY84_LCWnfYjhDGl-uy_piGcUZUlmrRaUdLXDGpO90gdk6HnBUONG5djyQSqYZK1HfuMV_MG57Z7HA | javascript | 200 | 914 ms | 39.0 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/styles/faa_home_news_image/public/2026-10/news_faa_seal_clouds_2025_1_0.jpg?itok=_mPpSw1j | images | 200 | 912 ms | 18.0 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/themes/custom/dot_cms/images/assets/us_flag_small.svg | images | 200 | 911 ms | 223 B |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/styles/faa_home_topics_main/public/2026-05/modernskies_landing.png?itok=QFoB6xc3 | images | 200 | 909 ms | 235.5 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/themes/custom/dot_cms/js/leftnav.js?v=10.6.19 | javascript | 200 | 905 ms | 540 B |
| https://www.faa.gov/themes/custom/faa/js/custom.js?v=10.6.19 | javascript | 200 | 903 ms | 434 B |
| https://www.faa.gov/akam/13/pixel_2a1f9a66?a=dD03MWVhMDYzZjc3MGJmMzUxMzhjZThmZWM2ZmJmODRlNTc1ODU5NGQ4JmpzPW9mZg== | html | 200 | 898 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.faa.gov/themes/custom/dot_cms/images/assets/icon-https.svg | images | 200 | 897 ms | 325 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-18660041-1 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 866 ms | 118.4 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/themes/custom/dot_cms/images/assets/icon-dot-gov.svg | images | 200 | 864 ms | 377 B |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/js/js_IFvEKKJ_l3qceJPPSMtYjrEHPxNMfTg2VV_kpHa6Ufw.js?scope=footer&delta=4&language=en&theme=faa&include=eJxdj1GOwzAIRC_kxEeyiE0tt8S4gKXm9qXN5mP7g2AG8ZjMRDC0bcT5ETMLhk-JReYAWmEaZ94Hof03SgPiusIdXqfeuqF0d-7PiXKsN5Y9FLaUd42VeANa1A5qvQZ8Degl5ZONCYjiqS2X5jvmu4-L9zeGG8DvtcpcyY84_LCWnfYjhDGl-uy_piGcUZUlmrRaUdLXDGpO90gdk6HnBUONG5djyQSqYZK1HfuMV_MG57Z7HA | javascript | 200 | 861 ms | 27.0 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/themes/custom/dot_cms/js/custom.js?v=10.6.19 | javascript | 200 | 858 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/themes/custom/faa/images/logo-faa.svg | images | 200 | 855 ms | 11.9 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/js/js_jX_qSnpEy-Jls2_5gvBbfkrTLVeQATQaIL16jD3DayY.js?scope=footer&delta=2&language=en&theme=faa&include=eJxdj1GOwzAIRC_kxEeyiE0tt8S4gKXm9qXN5mP7g2AG8ZjMRDC0bcT5ETMLhk-JReYAWmEaZ94Hof03SgPiusIdXqfeuqF0d-7PiXKsN5Y9FLaUd42VeANa1A5qvQZ8Degl5ZONCYjiqS2X5jvmu4-L9zeGG8DvtcpcyY84_LCWnfYjhDGl-uy_piGcUZUlmrRaUdLXDGpO90gdk6HnBUONG5djyQSqYZK1HfuMV_MG57Z7HA | javascript | 200 | 851 ms | 20.3 KB |
| https://dap.digitalgov.gov/Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js?agency=DOT 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 851 ms | 9.0 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/modules/contrib/purge_ajax_processor/js/trigger_purge.js?tn0ede | javascript | 200 | 847 ms | 244 B |
| https://www.faa.gov/modules/contrib/collapsiblock/theme/dist/collapsiblock.js?tn0ede | javascript | 200 | 842 ms | 1.4 KB |
| https://www.faa.gov/themes/custom/faa/js/global.js?v=10.6.19 | javascript | 200 | 841 ms | 145 B |
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