www.byu.edu speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:04 UTC. Grade A (92/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 76 ms 38%
- TCP connect 21 ms 11%
- Server wait 101 ms 51%
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 server answered in 198 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 372.2 KB over 22 request(s). Javascript files are 86% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 51% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
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. 22 request(s) in total, 372.2 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact7 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (2 script(s), 5 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.
Cache static assets
medium impact6 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.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact2 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.
Third-party weight
low impact6 third-party host(s) serve 191.4 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://www.byu.edu/favicon-16x16.png | images | 200 | 929 ms | 438 B |
| https://brightspot.byu.edu/override-styles.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 882 ms | 1 B |
| https://home-c52.nice-incontact.com/inContact/ChatClient/js/embed.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 804 ms | 3.2 KB |
| https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Sans:ital,wght@0,100..700;1,100..700&display=swap 3rd party | css | 200 | 760 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.byu.edu/apple-touch-icon.png | images | 200 | 746 ms | 7.2 KB |
| https://www.byu.edu/favicon-32x32.png | images | 200 | 732 ms | 846 B |
| https://www.byu.edu/override-fonts.css | css | 200 | 728 ms | 2.0 KB |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/dims4/default/d02bd82/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3840x2160+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrigham-young-brightspot-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Ffb%2Ffd%2Fe5ea036b4de385eb76a7ea9ce3fc%2Frendering-5-byu-med-east-night.png 3rd party | html | 403 | 717 ms | 919 B |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/dims4/default/0d135d8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1200x800+0+0/resize/1920x1280!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrigham-young-brightspot-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fc9%2F2d%2F915d81ef469caffc48bc37a929c1%2F2510-29-193.jpg 3rd party | html | 403 | 704 ms | 919 B |
| https://script.crazyegg.com/pages/scripts/0113/7173.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 701 ms | 2.9 KB |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/dims4/default/8f6e607/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4800x2356+0+0/resize/1920x942!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrigham-young-brightspot-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2F11%2Ff8%2Fbd514b904e3ebf4579182da4bdfe%2F2004-26-007.jpg 3rd party | html | 403 | 696 ms | 919 B |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/dims4/default/cf612b3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1280x720+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrigham-young-brightspot-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2F02%2Fe7%2F69511afd4742a080474fb7eafbdc%2Fthumb2.png 3rd party | html | 403 | 693 ms | 919 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-FVREXEDRZ9 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 683 ms | 175.4 KB |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/resource/00000173-da06-d043-a7ff-dece7d790000/styleguide/All.min.6ba6cf02b2be7d2a709921a8d6a38bab.gz.css 3rd party | html | 403 | 680 ms | 919 B |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/resource/00000173-da06-d043-a7ff-dece7d790000/_resource/brightspot/analytics/search/SiteSearchAnalytics.5eb1a8a326b06970c71b3a253fbeaa64.gz.js 3rd party | html | 403 | 679 ms | 919 B |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/resource/00000173-da06-d043-a7ff-dece7d790000/_resource/analytics/bsp-analytics.min.686c87a3ca6667675841641b91fc7fe6.gz.js 3rd party | html | 403 | 673 ms | 919 B |
| https://www.byu.edu/ruxitagentjs_ICA15789NPRTUVXfqrux_10347260902154543.js | javascript | 200 | 671 ms | 139.5 KB |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/resource/00000173-da06-d043-a7ff-dece7d790000/styleguide/All.min.bb985259534dceec50d481e12b180c7f.gz.js 3rd party | html | 403 | 670 ms | 919 B |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/e4/0a/b679ee0a41d9b1675fc78cd03239/byu-logo-white-small.svg 3rd party | html | 403 | 669 ms | 919 B |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/78/d7/fc56ee5d4d2991c2d9a1bfa706ba/1-primary-white.svg 3rd party | html | 403 | 669 ms | 919 B |
| https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/0c/14/9fea42874f02a621265d46134903/byu-wordmark-ring.svg 3rd party | html | 403 | 669 ms | 919 B |
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