picsart.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:04 UTC. Grade C (79/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://picsart.com/

20 October 2026 at 14:04 UTC · Free test · report pt_7c48f7445be7

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Grade

79/100

Performance76/100

Structure83/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)512 msmeasured from this server

Fully loaded5.62 sfirst byte + slowest asset

Requests26document + assets

Page weight564.8 KBcompressed transfer

HTML document209.1 KBbr

ProtocolHTTP/3cloudflare

Where the first byte went

DNS lookup 75 ms 15%
TCP connect 50 ms 10%
Server wait 387 ms 76%

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 byteslower than 56% of 4,999 pages tested here512 ms against a median of 448 ms

Page weightlighter than 54% of 4,999 pages tested here564.8 KB against a median of 650.5 KB

Fully loadedslower than 93% of 4,999 pages tested here5.62 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 took 512 ms. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
The page transfers 564.8 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 63% 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.
The largest element painted at 924 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
Layout stayed still (CLS 0.004), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
The main thread was blocked for 487 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.

Fix first: Server response time (TTFB) - Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.

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 picsart.com — **Mobile** 390 × 844 · 159.9 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 paint924 msgood is under 2.5 s

Cumulative layout shift0.004under 0.1 is stable

Total blocking time487 mslong tasks during load

First contentful paint924 msfirst content on screen

Browser page weight10.60 MB297 request(s), scripts included

Failed requests10blocked or unreachable

Largest contentful paint924 ms

Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s

Cumulative layout shift0.004

Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25

Total blocking time487 ms

Needs improvementgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests

355.7 KB 63%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 564.8 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 512 ms. Of that, 387 ms was the server thinking and 125 ms was connection setup. A first byte under 400 ms is what a visitor feels as instant.

Fix: Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

56 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 55 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.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 209.1 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.