www.pcloud.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:36 UTC. Grade C (72/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.pcloud.com/

20 October 2026 at 13:36 UTC · Free test · report pt_8d33f72d7ca9
Grade
C
72/100
Performance78/100
Structure64/100

9 audit(s) passed, 7 need work

First byte (TTFB)712 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded2.38 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight1.45 MBcompressed transfer
HTML document43.6 KBbr
ProtocolHTTP/3nginx
Third-party1.41 MBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 78 ms 11%
  • TCP connect 184 ms 26%
  • Server wait 451 ms 63%

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 70% of 4,999 pages tested here712 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightheavier than 73% of 4,999 pages tested here1.45 MB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedslower than 71% of 4,999 pages tested here2.38 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 712 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 1.45 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 97% 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.
  • 97% 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 1.47 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.054), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 311 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 www.pcloud.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 61.0 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 paint1.47 sgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.054under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time311 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint1.47 sfirst content on screen
Browser page weight3.09 MB165 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests9blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint1.47 s
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.054
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time311 ms
Needs improvementgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests
1.41 MB 97%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 1.45 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 712 ms. Of that, 451 ms was the server thinking and 262 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.

Image delivery and format

high impact

3 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.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

32 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (3 script(s), 29 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

medium impact

The page transfers 1.45 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 43.6 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

Third-party weight

medium impact

1 third-party host(s) serve 1.41 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.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image
1.67 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image
1.66 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image
1.63 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image
1.57 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image
1.56 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/pDevs.svg
1.56 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image
1.55 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/pSave.svg
1.55 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/pTransfer.svg
1.55 s
IMAGESpcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/pPass.svg
1.55 s

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

RequestTypeStatusTimeSize
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F2-m.jpg&w=640&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.67 s57.0 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F4%402x.jpg&w=3840&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.66 s157.8 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F2-m.jpg&w=3840&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.63 s203.1 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F4-m-an.jpg&w=3840&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.57 s173.5 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F2%402x.png&w=640&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.56 s22.5 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/pDevs.svg 3rd partyimages2001.56 s1.7 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F1-m.jpg&w=640&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.55 s64.6 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/pSave.svg 3rd partyimages2001.55 s1.0 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/pTransfer.svg 3rd partyimages2001.55 s1.4 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/pPass.svg 3rd partyimages2001.55 s1.5 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/y.svg 3rd partyimages2001.54 s747 B
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/in.svg 3rd partyimages2001.54 s1.2 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F4-m-an.jpg&w=640&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.54 s54.5 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F4%402x.jpg&w=640&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.54 s38.1 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/logo/pcloud.svg 3rd partyimages2001.54 s2.1 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F2%402x.png&w=3840&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.53 s90.8 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F1%402x.jpg&w=640&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.53 s36.7 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fswiss-privacy%2Fprivacy%402x.png&w=640&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.52 s28.7 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/bs.svg 3rd partyimages2001.52 s663 B
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/circle-arrow-light.svg 3rd partyimages2001.52 s695 B
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/f.svg 3rd partyimages2001.52 s730 B
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/images/footer/svg/x.svg 3rd partyimages2001.52 s304 B
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fswiss-privacy%2Fprivacy%402x.png&w=3840&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.13 s39.0 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F1-m.jpg&w=3840&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.07 s210.7 KB
https://pcdn-www.pcloud.com/ZWKV8/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fanimated-home%2Fcarousel-slides%2F1%402x.jpg&w=3840&q=90 3rd partyimages2001.04 s252.1 KB
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