visualstudio.microsoft.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:24 UTC. Grade A (94/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/

20 October 2026 at 12:24 UTC · Free test · report pt_a722f703cf62
Grade
A
94/100
Performance100/100
Structure85/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)113 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.13 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight175.4 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document53.3 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3nginx
Third-party4.0 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 31 ms 27%
  • TCP connect 10 ms 9%
  • Server wait 72 ms 64%

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 100% of 4,999 pages tested here113 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightlighter than 81% of 4,999 pages tested here175.4 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 89% of 4,999 pages tested here1.13 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 server answered in 113 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
  • The page transfers 175.4 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 70% 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 616 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.002), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 4 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.

Mobile screenshot of visualstudio.microsoft.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 113.7 KB · page is 6000 px tall

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.

Largest contentful paint616 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.002under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time4 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint616 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight3.78 MB108 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint616 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.002
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time4 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests
122.1 KB 70%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 175.4 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Render-blocking resources

high impact

48 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (4 script(s), 44 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 impact

1 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 impact

2 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

IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/general-mot…
1.02 s
IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Facebook.svg
1.01 s
IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Youtube.svg
1.01 s
IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Linkedin.svg
1.01 s
IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/realmadrid.…
1.01 s
IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/X-logo.svg
1.00 s
IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BrandVisual…
1.00 s
IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/general-mot…
991 ms
IMAGESuhf.microsoft.com/images/microsoft/RE1Mu3b.png
991 ms
IMAGESvisualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/quote-icon.svg
990 ms

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://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/general-motors-200x86.webpimages2001.02 s5.7 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Facebook.svgimages2001.01 s450 B
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Youtube.svgimages2001.01 s372 B
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Linkedin.svgimages2001.01 s454 B
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/realmadrid.webpimages2001.01 s20.9 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/X-logo.svgimages2001.00 s331 B
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BrandVisualStudioWin2019-2.svgimages2001.00 s1.4 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/general-motors.webpimages200991 ms14.3 KB
https://uhf.microsoft.com/images/microsoft/RE1Mu3b.png 3rd partyimages200991 ms4.0 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/quote-icon.svgimages200990 ms510 B
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/circles.webpimages200981 ms4.3 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hp.webpimages200979 ms14.4 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/halo.webpimages200979 ms9.7 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/realmadrid-200x86.webpimages200979 ms7.5 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hp-200x86.webpimages200979 ms5.5 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/halo-200x86.webpimages200979 ms4.3 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/database-66x66.webpimages200979 ms2.6 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ui.webpimages200979 ms2.4 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ui-66x66.webpimages200979 ms1.7 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/debug-1.webpimages200978 ms4.8 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/beaker.webpimages200978 ms3.9 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/database.webpimages200978 ms3.8 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/debug-1-66x66.webpimages200978 ms3.0 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/circles-66x66.webpimages200978 ms3.0 KB
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/beaker-66x66.webpimages200978 ms2.8 KB
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