boingboing.net speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:42 UTC. Grade A (98/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Grade
A
98/100
First byte (TTFB)121 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.19 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight145.2 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document23.2 KBbr
ProtocolHTTP/3cloudflare
Third-party121.7 KBother hosts
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 62 ms 51%
- TCP connect 3 ms 2%
- Server wait 56 ms 46%
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 99% of 4,999 pages tested here121 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightlighter than 84% of 4,999 pages tested here145.2 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 88% of 4,999 pages tested here1.19 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 121 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 145.2 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 84% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 84% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
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Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Images 25 requests
121.9 KB 84%
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 145.2 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact3 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 2 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.
Waterfall
Slowest requests
IMAGESi0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026…
1.07 s
IMAGESi0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026…
1.06 s
IMAGESi0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026…
1.06 s
IMAGESi0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026…
1.05 s
IMAGESi0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2023…
1.05 s
IMAGESwww.facebook.com/tr
1.05 s
IMAGESboingboing.net/wp-content/themes/boing/assets/images/…
1.04 s
IMAGESi0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026…
1.04 s
IMAGESi0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026…
1.02 s
IMAGESi0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026…
1.02 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
| Request | Type | Status | Time | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/shutterstock_2719638487.jpg?fit=300%2C166&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.07 s | 4.5 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/KUPER-AMNH-MONARCH-FEATURE.jpg?fit=300%2C166&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=300%2C175 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.06 s | 13.6 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/960x0.jpg?fit=300%2C160&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=300%2C175 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.06 s | 6.3 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/fountain-pen-timekettle-nagasaki.jpg?fit=300%2C300&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.05 s | 3.8 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/shutterstock_518390170-2-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=300%2C175 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.05 s | 5.2 KB |
| https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1174428159312267&ev=PageView&noscript=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.05 s | 44 B |
| https://boingboing.net/wp-content/themes/boing/assets/images/logo-boingboing-176x27.png | images | 200 | 1.04 s | 185 B |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/flamigo.jpg?fit=300%2C168&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.04 s | 2.8 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/earhartnope.webp?fit=300%2C169&quality=55&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 16.2 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/KUPER-AMNH-MONARCH-FEATURE.jpg?fit=300%2C166&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 7.8 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Mini-Wireless-CarPlay.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 5.4 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/AnyToSpeech.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 5.3 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/husk-irl-s-ai-therapist-test-is-a-warning.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 4.8 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/the-very-best-sunsets-in-gaming.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 4.3 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/The-All-in-One-Microsoft-Office-Pro-2019-for-Windows-1-1.jpg?fit=300%2C225&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 4.1 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Microsoft-Office-Professional-2021-for-Windows.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 3.8 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/RkAwYq.png?fit=300%2C169&quality=55&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 3.7 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Realbotix-robot2-970.jpg?fit=300%2C144&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 3.4 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/atomic-shrimp-the-godfather-of-scambaiting-is-back.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 3.1 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/resident-evil-fan-film-is-just-as-spooky-as-the-games.jpg?fit=300%2C167&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 2.9 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Image-Merlin-Entertainments-Mojang.jpg?fit=300%2C188&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 5.6 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/fountain-pen-most-boring-headline.jpg?fit=300%2C356&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 4.9 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/fountain-pen-magical-tech-tiny-umbrella.jpg?fit=300%2C169&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 3.9 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/fountain-pen-skeleton-netsuke-franks.jpg?fit=300%2C324&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 3.4 KB |
| https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Image-Politizane.jpg?fit=300%2C169&quality=60&ssl=1&resize=200%2C135 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 3.1 KB |
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