smallpdf.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:45 UTC. Grade B (88/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 79 ms 12%
- TCP connect 18 ms 3%
- Server wait 537 ms 85%
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 took 635 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 475.5 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 65% 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.
- 60% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 475.5 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 635 ms. Of that, 537 ms was the server thinking and 97 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact1 third-party host(s) serve 283.1 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.
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.smallpdf.com/static/84121b568dbdb86e.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.45 s | 570 B |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/bb9d0a11fb7606ac.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.42 s | 1.4 KB |
| https://smallpdf.com/\"https://s.smallpdf.com/static/752cb6ca40d99602.svg\" | other | 301 | 1.38 s | 92 B |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/9d5a23a92f1ed79d.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 1.00 s | 72.2 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/fab0b222d02f8d15.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 981 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/6307d219b9e3c9aa.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 971 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/06f464fb4ee22507.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 968 ms | 1.9 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/b68657960289ab68.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 963 ms | 84.3 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/a30480307c0fc25b.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 960 ms | 3.4 KB |
| https://smallpdf.com/favicon.ico?v=1 | images | 200 | 955 ms | 99.6 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/ef11cdb756ac0c94.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 953 ms | 11.8 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/b80ff77e873f7231.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 952 ms | 2.0 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/ec655987d53aea55.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 951 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/9a5eb5cec00f8856.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 949 ms | 2.5 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/e757d142d82020fc.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 945 ms | 6.3 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/9b020e225fa66049.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 945 ms | 546 B |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/1c236de72419904c.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 942 ms | 7.5 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/52eca0e9f9095f05.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 941 ms | 20.7 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/874e8fae7f2a5b03.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 941 ms | 966 B |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/1eada9d4546fb352.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 937 ms | 2.1 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/d1d164f81eb6d262.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 937 ms | 1011 B |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/0b212f4e700cc9a5.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 934 ms | 58.5 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/e8d61118bbf714f1.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 934 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/e12bb76d471da4cc.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 934 ms | 632 B |
| https://s.smallpdf.com/static/1caec65420fdef0a.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 934 ms | 299 B |
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