notvpn.io speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:37 UTC. Grade C (71/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 101 ms 13%
- TCP connect 208 ms 27%
- Server wait 466 ms 60%
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 774 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 1.8 KB over 12 request(s), which is lean.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 25% 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. 12 request(s) in total, 1.8 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 774 ms. Of that, 466 ms was the server thinking and 309 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 impact4 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 script(s), 4 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.
Strict-Transport-Security
low impactHSTS is not set, so the first visit on a hostile network can still be downgraded to HTTP.
Fix: Send Strict-Transport-Security with a max-age of at least six months. Add includeSubDomains once every subdomain is HTTPS.
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://notvpn.io/public/css/main.css | css | 0 | 15.11 s | 0 B |
| https://notvpn.io/public/css/bootstrap.min.css | css | 0 | 15.11 s | 0 B |
| https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@500;700&display=swap 3rd party | css | 200 | 10.07 s | 222 B |
| https://notvpn.io/public/img/logo.svg | images | 0 | 527 ms | 0 B |
| https://notvpn.io/public/img/en.png | images | 0 | 527 ms | 0 B |
| https://notvpn.io/public/img/ru.png | images | 0 | 527 ms | 0 B |
| https://notvpn.io/public/img/home_promo_en.png | images | 0 | 527 ms | 0 B |
| https://notvpn.io/public/img/app.svg | images | 0 | 527 ms | 0 B |
| https://notvpn.io/public/img/play.svg | images | 0 | 527 ms | 0 B |
| https://notvpn.io/public/favicon/favicon.ico | images | 0 | 527 ms | 0 B |
| https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@400;700&display=swap 3rd party | css | 200 | 466 ms | 246 B |
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