www.du.ac.in speed test — 23 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 23 October 2026 at 08:21 UTC. Grade F (39/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.du.ac.in/

23 October 2026 at 08:21 UTC · Free test · report pt_c9ca350e9f08
Grade
F
39/100
Performance34/100
Structure47/100

8 audit(s) passed, 8 need work

First byte (TTFB)1.68 smeasured from this server
Fully loaded3.16 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight6.72 MBcompressed transfer
HTML document718.0 KBno compression
ProtocolHTTP/3Apache

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 278 ms 17%
  • TCP connect 313 ms 19%
  • Server wait 1.08 s 65%

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 96% of 4,999 pages tested here1.68 s against a median of 448 ms
Page weightheavier than 95% of 4,999 pages tested here6.72 MB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedslower than 84% of 4,999 pages tested here3.16 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 first byte took 1.68 s. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
  • The page transfers 6.72 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 90% 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 took 4.52 s to paint, past the 2.5 s threshold: usually a hero image that is too big or a render-blocking script in front of it.
  • Layout shift is 0.131 (good is under 0.1): something without a reserved size is loading late - an image, an ad, or a font swap.
  • The main thread was blocked for 112 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.

Desktop screenshot of www.du.ac.in
Desktop 1366 × 768 · 621.2 KB · page is 5627 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 paint4.52 sgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.131under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time112 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint3.51 sfirst content on screen
Browser page weight11.43 MB119 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests1blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint4.52 s
Poorgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.131
Needs improvementgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time112 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests
6.02 MB 90%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 6.72 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 1675 ms. Of that, 1084 ms was the server thinking and 591 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

0 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is compressed. That is 0 B 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.

Image delivery and format

high impact

4 image(s) over 200 KB and 5 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.

Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

7 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 6 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.

Total page weight

high impact

The page transfers 6.72 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 718.0 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/images/centenary-logo.jpg
1.49 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/images/30042022_1.jpg
1.43 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/images/online-teaching-and-lea…
1.40 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/hero-card-icons/aaj-…
1.36 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/hero-card-icons/prog…
1.34 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/hero-card-icons/depa…
1.34 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/images/21Oct.jpg
1.29 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/hero-card-icons/facu…
1.28 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/images/08092026_Banner_1.png
1.26 s
IMAGESwww.du.ac.in/uploads/images/01102026_5.png
1.19 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://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/centenary-logo.jpgimages2001.49 s20.4 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/30042022_1.jpgimages2001.43 s15.4 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/online-teaching-and-learning.svgimages2001.40 s7.2 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/hero-card-icons/aaj-ka-shabd.jpgimages2001.36 s13.6 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/hero-card-icons/programmes-icon.svgimages2001.34 s5.7 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/hero-card-icons/departments-icon.svgimages2001.34 s2.4 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/21Oct.jpgimages2001.29 s133.8 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/hero-card-icons/faculties-icon.svgimages2001.28 s4.1 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/08092026_Banner_1.pngimages2001.26 s1.85 MB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/01102026_5.pngimages2001.19 s880.5 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/tnp_fot_banner_final.pngimages2001.18 s1.31 MB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/study-at-du.svgimages2001.15 s1.6 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/16092026_ss.pngimages2001.15 s1.77 MB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/du/images/logo-du.pngimages2001.15 s26.9 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/examinations-results.svgimages2001.15 s2.4 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/images/work-with-du.svgimages2001.14 s1.0 KB
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id18938/01102026_placeholder (1).pngimages00 ms0 B
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id18893/Untitled Design (17).pngimages00 ms0 B
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id18754/Untitled design (15).pngimages00 ms0 B
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id18723/Untitled design (3).pngimages00 ms0 B
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id23/Biodiversity Parks.pngimages00 ms0 B
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id1/The Endowment Fund of the University of Delhi.pngimages00 ms0 B
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id8/FIT INDIA Movement.pngimages00 ms0 B
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id22/Electropreneur Park.pngimages00 ms0 B
https://www.du.ac.in/https://www.du.ac.in/uploads/news/id15368/Shri Subhash Pandey (Admin Advisor, IIT Bhilai) and Shri Gautam Ramani (Deputy Registrar Finance, IIT Bhilai) visited Delhi University Computer Centre, University of Delhi for Discussion on implem (1).pngimages00 ms0 B
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