www.verisign.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC. Grade B (81/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 63 ms 30%
- TCP connect 27 ms 13%
- Server wait 118 ms 56%
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 209 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 2.02 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 43% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 364 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 167 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
Fix first: Compress text responses - Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
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, 2.02 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Compress text responses
high impact2 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is compressed. That is 226.9 KB of compressible text.
Fix: Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
Image delivery and format
high impact1 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.
Total page weight
high impactThe page transfers 2.02 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 119.9 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Cache static assets
medium impact17 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.
HTML document size
medium impactThe document transfers 119.9 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.
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.verisign.com/$---$data[2].image.mobile$---$ | html | 404 | 1.74 s | 98.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/$---$data[3].image.mobile$---$ | html | 404 | 1.70 s | 98.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/$---$data[0].image.mobile$---$ | html | 404 | 1.69 s | 98.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/${(n=window.__js_prefix_path__ | html | 404 | 1.66 s | 98.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/${(o=window.__js_prefix_path__ | html | 404 | 1.44 s | 98.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/${(a=window.__js_prefix_path__ | html | 404 | 1.34 s | 98.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/js/layouts/analytics.491454085db48e76ce48cc4fb039923eae27bca86f31adb2be39345c97c8b03a.js | javascript | 200 | 1.08 s | 123 B |
| https://assets.adobedtm.com/1d6e8340b68d/700e249796ce/launch-305389a5b097.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.04 s | 75.1 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/verisign-cares-mobile-img-1x.a9ab2f0d7e8dc6e744ff4665a145e1eb0402c515b402d59c687940fcf74d4b45.webp | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 12.6 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/our-team-image-mobile.b17b757cfa95dd0d939920300471c8f06399c09641d0eec3b9685b3ae8bc09e7.webp | images | 200 | 1.01 s | 25.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/favicon.ico | images | 200 | 1.01 s | 909 B |
| https://www.verisign.com/fonts/Roboto-Semibold-latin.135066818a7fbbfc4d964f1f2f93dca0ddb3503456a9df038c20a4b29d131860.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 1.01 s | 27.2 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/fonts/Inter-Semibold-latin.52fefe04bda9e5814d3f1b232247a714676a6f7820c01cc1be303f4ca72f49ad.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 1.00 s | 17.4 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/tailwind.4cee25c56b185f34c500c7fcdeda1031a941f7609db090c5892b7d1739878b39.css | css | 200 | 997 ms | 157.6 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/lights-image-mobile.4d719dc6b7ffd9fc33edf8fb639690c86f2d442311206e80db9c6bbfac275f10.webp | images | 200 | 987 ms | 74.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/fonts/Inter-Regular-latin.2961762d625bd3a73fa9bdf3f1c897ec4a0ad5cf3e53490c69bc1c15ebf34087.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 984 ms | 16.4 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/verisign-cares-desktop-img-1x.4dcb8aa90c9d0a7f5584cf722a2aac7d288b37575b4bcd9e14e0edb8fe7a1651.webp | images | 200 | 969 ms | 26.7 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/js/components/index.9288f2ac20f9b631625a174c3ec8d98465e3e6ecb096e586f3a5575ba3cf0aa4.js | javascript | 200 | 960 ms | 69.3 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/globe-desktop-img.min.df4bf5f42d9db4e7b7ad5fee74c9d14511e96d1f772039f08d04e0aca7624e8b.svg | images | 200 | 957 ms | 498.1 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/lights-image-desktop.1b1f4d76e43216e1f6c82ee42892b01d19ed4b98584e7dddeba3725a496375bd.webp | images | 200 | 957 ms | 142.0 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/$---$data[0].image.desktop$---$ | html | 404 | 957 ms | 98.8 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/our-team-image.3868474dd8855d7a2df7b058b7aca49f500f05f42f1ec21fe85e32042e313bdb.webp | images | 200 | 957 ms | 56.9 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/blog-image-1.45171acfc5847cde1ab8a2a541e7e53e578d8f598b91cbb928596e28fa71b76d.webp | images | 200 | 957 ms | 39.6 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/homepage/blog-image-1-1x.9810c8b35273d9861133b2f1a386e98fa5cc76ac1c7673169a06b8d29a613a62.webp | images | 200 | 957 ms | 15.6 KB |
| https://www.verisign.com/img/general/verisign_logo.min.e2353926dddcdf1d30390ecc21110351f6d9378b32501c3cb94fc7cbeedd4bb6.svg | images | 200 | 957 ms | 4.6 KB |
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