imgur.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:28 UTC. Grade A (92/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 74 ms 21%
- TCP connect 67 ms 19%
- Server wait 213 ms 60%
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 354 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 841.0 KB over 16 request(s). Javascript files are 97% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 99% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
Fix first: Cache static assets - Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.
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.
The headless browser did not capture this page when the test ran, so only the server measurements are shown.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 16 request(s) in total, 841.0 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Cache static assets
medium impact3 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact9 third-party host(s) serve 834.5 KB 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.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: main.2b1a65ae82787493207d.js (604.7 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
Mobile viewport
medium impactNo viewport meta tag, so a phone renders the desktop layout scaled down.
Fix: Add a viewport meta tag with width=device-width and an initial scale of 1.
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://s.imgur.com/images/favicon-16x16.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 858 ms | 741 B |
| https://s.imgur.com/images/favicon-32x32.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 785 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://js.assemblyexchange.com/wana.5.30.0.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 781 ms | 29.2 KB |
| https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Comic+Neue:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,700&display=swap 3rd party | css | 200 | 781 ms | 268 B |
| https://imgur.com/document.location | html | 301 | 780 ms | 0 B |
| https://s.imgur.com/images/favicon-96x96.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 775 ms | 7.6 KB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-M6N38SF 3rd party | html | 200 | 768 ms | 92 B |
| https://btloader.com/tag?o=6282837909569536&upapi=true 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 739 ms | 29.0 KB |
| https://s.imgur.com/desktop-assets/scripts/primis-integration.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 724 ms | 7.0 KB |
| https://s.imgur.com/desktop-assets/js/main.2b1a65ae82787493207d.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 719 ms | 604.7 KB |
| https://s.imgur.com/desktop-assets/css/styles.5c1f1e56c11992332cd0.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 710 ms | 8.7 KB |
| https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 699 ms | 20.3 KB |
| https://d3c8j8snkzfr1n.cloudfront.net/script.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 684 ms | 93.2 KB |
| https://ced.sascdn.com/tag/3370/smart.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 684 ms | 28.0 KB |
| https://ced-ns.sascdn.com/diff/templates/ts/dist/viewability/sas-viewability-1.1.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 684 ms | 4.0 KB |
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