buffer.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:57 UTC. Grade B (81/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://buffer.com/

20 October 2026 at 13:57 UTC · Free test · report pt_97f25c771334
Grade
B
81/100
Performance79/100
Structure83/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)419 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded5.55 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight126.9 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document98.8 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3cloudflare

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 57 ms 14%
  • TCP connect 47 ms 11%
  • Server wait 315 ms 75%

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 bytefaster than 54% of 4,999 pages tested here419 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightlighter than 85% of 4,999 pages tested here126.9 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedslower than 93% of 4,999 pages tested here5.55 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 arrived in 419 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 126.9 KB over 26 request(s).
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.

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.

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Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests
28.2 KB 22%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 126.9 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 419 ms. Of that, 315 ms was the server thinking and 104 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.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

10 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 9 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.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 98.8 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

IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,quality=75,form…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,form…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,form…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=96,quality=75,form…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=48,quality=75,form…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=48,quality=75,form…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=96,quality=75,form…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=48,quality=75,form…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=750,quality=75,for…
5.13 s
IMAGESbuffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=384,quality=75,for…
5.13 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://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/dropbox.webpimages2005.13 s632 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/dropbox.webpimages2005.13 s389 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/canva.webpimages2005.13 s356 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=96,quality=75,format=auto/img/homepage/integration-tiles/canva.webpimages2005.13 s3.0 KB
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=48,quality=75,format=auto/img/homepage/integration-tiles/claude.webpimages2005.13 s1.8 KB
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=48,quality=75,format=auto/img/homepage/integration-tiles/canva.webpimages2005.13 s1.7 KB
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=96,quality=75,format=auto/img/homepage/integration-tiles/onedrive.webpimages2005.13 s1.0 KB
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=48,quality=75,format=auto/img/homepage/integration-tiles/onedrive.webpimages2005.13 s657 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=750,quality=75,format=auto/img/commit/banner-trace.svgimages2005.13 s217 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=384,quality=75,format=auto/img/commit/banner-trace.svgimages2005.13 s217 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,format=auto/img/commit/banner-node.svgimages2005.13 s185 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=96,quality=75,format=auto/img/commit/buffer-commit-lockup.svgimages2001.35 s4.2 KB
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/unsplash.webpimages2001.34 s522 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/claude.webpimages2001.33 s342 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/zapier.webpimages2001.31 s350 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/zapier.webpimages2001.31 s492 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/unsplash.webpimages2001.30 s362 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=96,quality=75,format=auto/img/homepage/integration-tiles/google-drive.webpimages2001.29 s1.2 KB
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/google-drive.webpimages2001.29 s567 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=16,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/google-drive.webpimages2001.29 s387 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=48,quality=75,format=auto/img/homepage/integration-tiles/google-drive.webpimages2001.29 s748 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=256,quality=75,format=auto/img/commit/buffer-commit-lockup.svgimages2001.27 s4.2 KB
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=96,quality=75,format=auto/img/homepage/integration-tiles/claude.webpimages2001.19 s3.7 KB
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/canva.webpimages2001.13 s513 B
https://buffer.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,quality=75,format=auto/img/integrations/claude.webpimages2001.08 s546 B
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