about.google speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:17 UTC. Grade C (74/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 58 ms 23%
- TCP connect 41 ms 16%
- Server wait 155 ms 61%
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 253 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 26.52 MB over 26 request(s). Media files are 98% of it, so let video load on demand instead of on first paint.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 100% 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 768 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 50 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.
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, 26.52 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Compress text responses
high impact0 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is compressed. That is 0 B 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.
Render-blocking resources
high impact4 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 3 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.
Total page weight
high impactThe page transfers 26.52 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 130.1 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact2 third-party host(s) serve 26.39 MB of this page. Each one is another DNS lookup, TLS handshake and point of failure you do not control.
Fix: Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.
HTML document size
medium impactThe document transfers 130.1 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.
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.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/9d/f8/6ff52e274df88a0dcb150746f9f9/about-3up-gdm.webp=n-w288-h162-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.53 s | 3.8 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/80/0d/4ee8c3384f819609e7dcdf777e83/about-homepage-3up-exploreproducts-1.webp=n-w543-h361-fcrop64=1,0000140effffebaf-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.53 s | 14.9 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/b3/a5/529a3d3047d18be9a5f3547ad7e3/google-logo-footer.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.49 s | 1.1 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/80/0d/4ee8c3384f819609e7dcdf777e83/about-homepage-3up-exploreproducts-1.webp=n-w390-h259-fcrop64=1,0000140effffebaf-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.46 s | 11.0 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/glue/cookienotificationbar/cookienotificationbar.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.45 s | 28.2 KB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WQZB4J 3rd party | html | 200 | 1.45 s | 92 B |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/80/87/75244ed241c396203a1e7c79f884/gemini-4-argon-blog-header-1920x1080.mp4 3rd party | media | 200 | 1.45 s | 19.30 MB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/1e/23/1ba122344711850cd122975e8129/about-homepage-3up-research.png=n-w390-h219-fcrop64=1,00000051ffffffff-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.44 s | 25.5 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/be/ff/e2c48c5748849f9b0c964f7aef8b/demothumb-2-5.webp=n-w531-h299-fcrop64=1,00180000ffd0ffff-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.44 s | 11.2 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/80/0d/4ee8c3384f819609e7dcdf777e83/about-homepage-3up-exploreproducts-1.webp=n-w288-h191-fcrop64=1,0000140effffec35-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.44 s | 8.5 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/9d/f8/6ff52e274df88a0dcb150746f9f9/about-3up-gdm.webp=n-w390-h219-fcrop64=1,0000003dffffffc3-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.44 s | 4.9 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/reviewed-scripts/gtm/gtm.js?id=GTM-WQZB4J&cookieCategory=2A 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.44 s | 551 B |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/reviewed-scripts/prod/about_google-24.0.9-4558672/styles/default/All.min.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 1.44 s | 72.0 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/1e/23/1ba122344711850cd122975e8129/about-homepage-3up-research.png=n-w543-h305-fcrop64=1,00000051ffffffff-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.44 s | 41.3 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/33/52/d31eb4894f69969b24d075e0d33c/favicon.png=s180 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.44 s | 13.8 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/reviewed-scripts/prod/about_google-24.0.9-4558672/styles/default/All.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.44 s | 13.7 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/f5/d3/a7f9db7045429cb6dc6be56bdcbe/google-logo-about.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.44 s | 1.1 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/reviewed-scripts/youtube/iframe_api.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.44 s | 533 B |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/reviewed-scripts/about_google/datalayerInitializer.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.44 s | 280 B |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/97/ad/9dbfac0a402eb96729c7248a66cb/research-at-2026.mp4 3rd party | media | 200 | 1.42 s | 6.77 MB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/5b/b0/3a62c7b4486e943fceeeb3fe90df/g-about-gatg.png=n-w64-h65-fcrop64=1,000005f5ffffffff-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.41 s | 1.3 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/9d/f8/6ff52e274df88a0dcb150746f9f9/about-3up-gdm.webp=n-w543-h305-fcrop64=1,0000003dffffffc3-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.40 s | 6.5 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/be/ff/e2c48c5748849f9b0c964f7aef8b/demothumb-2-5.webp=n-w1280-h720-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.40 s | 32.9 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/be/ff/e2c48c5748849f9b0c964f7aef8b/demothumb-2-5.webp=n-w931-h524-fcrop64=1,00180000ffe8ffff-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.40 s | 22.2 KB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/1e/23/1ba122344711850cd122975e8129/about-homepage-3up-research.png=n-w288-h162-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.40 s | 15.7 KB |
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