mercadolibre.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:02 UTC. Grade A (94/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 96 ms 24%
- TCP connect 39 ms 10%
- Server wait 259 ms 66%
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 395 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 167.8 KB over 10 request(s), which is lean. Javascript files are 77% 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.
- 89% 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 700 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
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. 10 request(s) in total, 167.8 KB 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.
Cache static assets
medium impact2 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.
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://static.mlstatic.com/org-img/homesnw/img/[email protected]?v=4.0 3rd party | images | 200 | 483 ms | 12.5 KB |
| https://http2.mlstatic.com/ui/navigation/5.6.1/mercadolibre/76x76-precomposed.png 3rd party | html | 405 | 418 ms | 18 B |
| https://http2.mlstatic.com/ui/navigation/5.6.1/mercadolibre/60x60-precomposed.png 3rd party | html | 405 | 407 ms | 18 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-80810547-1 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 399 ms | 128.5 KB |
| https://http2.mlstatic.com/frontend-assets/homes-palpatine/logo_homecom_v2.png 3rd party | html | 405 | 395 ms | 18 B |
| https://http2.mlstatic.com/ui/navigation/5.18.1/mercadolibre/favicon.ico 3rd party | html | 405 | 392 ms | 18 B |
| https://static.mlstatic.com/org-img/homesnw/img/flags.png?v=3.0 3rd party | images | 200 | 385 ms | 8.9 KB |
| https://http2.mlstatic.com/ui/navigation/5.6.1/mercadolibre/152x152-precomposed.png 3rd party | html | 405 | 382 ms | 18 B |
| https://http2.mlstatic.com/ui/navigation/5.6.1/mercadolibre/120x120-precomposed.png 3rd party | html | 405 | 369 ms | 18 B |
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