quad9.net speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:47 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://quad9.net/

20 October 2026 at 13:47 UTC · Free test · report pt_ad40bb9fb443
Grade
B
87/100
Performance88/100
Structure85/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)576 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.86 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests25document + assets
Page weight306.4 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document29.1 KBno compression
ProtocolHTTP/3nginx/1.22.1

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 65 ms 11%
  • TCP connect 152 ms 26%
  • Server wait 358 ms 62%

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 byteslower than 61% of 4,999 pages tested here576 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightlighter than 71% of 4,999 pages tested here306.4 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedslower than 51% of 4,999 pages tested here1.86 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends fewer requests than 74% of 4,999 pages tested here25 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 first byte took 576 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 306.4 KB over 25 request(s). Images files are 80% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • The largest element painted at 1.34 s, 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 47 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.

Mobile screenshot of quad9.net
Mobile 390 × 844 · 123.9 KB · page is 4886 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 paint1.34 sgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.002under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time47 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint1.08 sfirst content on screen
Browser page weight480.3 KB36 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint1.34 s
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.002
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time47 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 22 requests
244.4 KB 80%
Css 1 request
31.6 KB 10%
Other 1 request
1.3 KB 0%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 25 request(s) in total, 306.4 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 576 ms. Of that, 358 ms was the server thinking and 217 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.

Compress text responses

high impact

1 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is compressed. That is 31.6 KB of compressible text.

Fix: Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.

Cache static assets

medium impact

24 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.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/international-association…
1.29 s
IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/ripe-christian-kaufmann/c…
1.27 s
IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/none-florian-schuetz/flor…
1.26 s
IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/founder-executive-women-s…
1.23 s
IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/international-telecommuni…
1.22 s
IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/digitale-gesellschaft-eri…
1.22 s
IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/nlnet-labs-benno-overeind…
1.21 s
IMAGESquad9.net/images/logo.svg
1.21 s
IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/forum-of-incident-respons…
1.20 s
IMAGESquad9.net/testimonials/swiss-internet-security-a…
1.20 s

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://quad9.net/testimonials/international-association-of-privacy-professionals-omer-tene/download_7781d92e0b.pngimages2001.29 s11.0 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/ripe-christian-kaufmann/chris_kauf_67153b07f1.jpgimages2001.27 s9.4 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/none-florian-schuetz/florian_e0e4ca39a1.jpgimages2001.26 s3.8 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/founder-executive-women-s-forum-joyce-brocaglia/joyce_39cbcb3595.jpgimages2001.23 s12.0 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/international-telecommunication-union-itu-tomas-lamanauskas/Tomas_Lamanauskas_229889_79073a4c1f.jpgimages2001.22 s8.8 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/digitale-gesellschaft-erik-schoenenberger/Portrait_Placeholder_df33e7cfc5.pngimages2001.22 s14.8 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/nlnet-labs-benno-overeinder/Personnalisee_2_6067fc0185.pngimages2001.21 s6.9 KB
https://quad9.net/images/logo.svgimages2001.21 s1.9 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/forum-of-incident-response-and-security-teams-dr-serge-droz/serge_droz_34b05dcdc4.jpgimages2001.20 s10.4 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/swiss-internet-security-alliance-daniel-nussbaumer/Daniel_Nussbaumer_1024x682_0cae88ec7a.jpgimages2001.20 s7.0 KB
https://quad9.net/icons/icon_512x512.a811cc.pngimages2001.20 s18.9 KB
https://quad9.net/icons/icon_64x64.a811cc.pngimages2001.18 s2.3 KB
https://quad9.net/favicon.svgimages2001.17 s838 B
https://quad9.net/main.a3fa9f4e13545488d2c5b4d95af576e623f19f021ba26f0f6812ffe91e959cb2.csscss2001.17 s31.6 KB
https://quad9.net/images/badges/cc-by-nc-40.pngimages2001.17 s449 B
https://quad9.net/about/sponsors/global-cyber-alliance/GCA_Logo_White_with_color_web_e386773973.pngimages2001.16 s6.7 KB
https://quad9.net/manifest.webmanifestother2001.16 s1.3 KB
https://quad9.net/about/sponsors/ibm/2880px_IBM_logo_svg_a3627e043e.pngimages2001.16 s40.3 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/protonmail-dr-andy-yen/andy_acb0178fc6.jpegimages2001.15 s10.2 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/the-swedish-internet-foundation-ulrich-wisser/ulrich_wisser_internetstiftelsen_high_res_2_5815a39e67.jpgimages2001.15 s4.5 KB
https://quad9.net/about/sponsors/pch/pch_logo_reverse_transparent_vector_8a20c1197f.svgimages2001.15 s37.5 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/equinix-switzerland-roger-semprini/roger_7a5d313888.jpgimages2001.13 s12.6 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/center-for-democracy-and-technology-mallory-knodel/mallory_7e1b1137a6.jpgimages2001.13 s15.8 KB
https://quad9.net/testimonials/open-xchange-vittorio-bertola/vittorio_10ff1d8886.jpgimages2001.12 s8.1 KB
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