www.nd.edu speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:07 UTC. Grade A (90/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 55 ms 11%
- TCP connect 97 ms 20%
- Server wait 345 ms 69%
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 497 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 1.14 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 98% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 980 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.020), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 46 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
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.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 1.14 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 497 ms. Of that, 345 ms was the server thinking and 152 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.
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 1.14 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 23.4 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
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://www25.nd.edu/assets/681142/600x600/1_photo_consecration_2000.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.08 s | 72.7 KB |
| https://www25.nd.edu/assets/681147/600x600/3_photo_oneill_2000.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.08 s | 76.8 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/podcast-bird-flu.webp | images | 200 | 1.07 s | 24.5 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/hallmarks-research.webp | images | 200 | 1.04 s | 8.5 KB |
| https://www25.nd.edu/assets/681137/600x600/2_photo_dorm_2000.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 48.8 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/ff-hurricane-forecasts.webp | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 21.6 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/ff-nonverbal-400.webp | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 37.1 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/hallmarks-rigorous.webp | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 28.8 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/ff-children-ghana.webp | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 8.8 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/ff-vine-robots-400.webp | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 64.9 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/ff-clean-water-400.webp | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 46.7 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/hallmarks-community.webp | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 20.4 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/ff-prevent-infections-400.webp | images | 200 | 1.01 s | 40.9 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/hallmarks-global.webp | images | 200 | 1.01 s | 90.0 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/video-protect-community-800.webp | images | 200 | 979 ms | 29.2 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/video-pass-review-800.webp | images | 200 | 976 ms | 27.8 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/pressing-challenges-mcguinness-800.webp | images | 200 | 971 ms | 132.4 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/hallmarks-catholic.webp | images | 200 | 971 ms | 42.6 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/features/global-research/poster-global-research-720.webp | images | 200 | 966 ms | 74.1 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/video-hurricanes-800.webp | images | 200 | 957 ms | 59.1 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/video-protect-brave-800.webp | images | 200 | 957 ms | 46.8 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/video-intelligent-solutions-800.webp | images | 200 | 954 ms | 33.9 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/podcast-holt-400.webp | images | 200 | 949 ms | 21.8 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/podcast-american-family-400.webp | images | 200 | 948 ms | 42.3 KB |
| https://www.nd.edu/assets/images/home/podcast-hurricane_forecasts.webp | images | 200 | 948 ms | 39.1 KB |
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