www.python.org speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:28 UTC. Grade A (97/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 51 ms 23%
- TCP connect 40 ms 18%
- Server wait 128 ms 58%
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 219 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 321.7 KB over 15 request(s), which is lean. Css files are 48% of it, so split the stylesheet so the first screen does not download the whole site.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 34% 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 828 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout shift is 0.107 (good is under 0.1): something without a reserved size is loading late - an image, an ad, or a font swap.
- The main thread was blocked for 14 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
Fix first: Render-blocking resources - 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.
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. 15 request(s) in total, 321.7 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact5 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 4 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.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact1 redirect hop(s) before the page load started, each one a full round trip before the first byte.
Fix: Link to the canonical URL (and make sure http, the apex domain and www all point at it) so no visitor pays a redirect first.
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.python.org/static/js/libs/html-includes.js | javascript | 200 | 743 ms | 143 B |
| https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 733 ms | 8.2 KB |
| https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 726 ms | 66.4 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/style.6cb9f297dd80.css | css | 200 | 722 ms | 122.4 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/js/libs/modernizr.js | javascript | 200 | 717 ms | 4.9 KB |
| https://analytics.python.org/js/script.file-downloads.outbound-links.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 714 ms | 1.6 KB |
| https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 713 ms | 32.8 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/img/python-logo.png | images | 200 | 713 ms | 15.4 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | images | 200 | 706 ms | 2.4 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/js/libs/masonry.pkgd.min.js | javascript | 200 | 705 ms | 7.7 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/favicon.ico | images | 200 | 704 ms | 14.7 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/font-awesome.bf0c425cdb73.css | css | 200 | 689 ms | 6.9 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/mq.ab4b4ea88926.css | css | 200 | 686 ms | 17.2 KB |
| https://www.python.org/static/js/main-min.b1e587ad1920.js | javascript | 200 | 682 ms | 9.7 KB |
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