mullvad.net/en speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:04 UTC. Grade D (68/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 56 ms 9%
- TCP connect 180 ms 28%
- Server wait 404 ms 63%
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 640 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 3.28 MB over 19 request(s). Media files are 92% of it, so let video load on demand instead of on first paint.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 100% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
- The largest element painted at 1.12 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.010), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 73 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.
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.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 19 request(s) in total, 3.28 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 640 ms. Of that, 404 ms was the server thinking and 236 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 impact9 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 script(s), 9 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 impactThe page transfers 3.28 MB across 19 request(s), with the document itself at 16.6 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Image delivery and format
medium impact0 image(s) over 200 KB and 2 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact1 third-party host(s) serve 3.27 MB of this page. Each one is another DNS lookup, TLS handshake and point of failure you do not control.
Fix: Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.
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://mullvad.net/en/ | other | 308 | 1.05 s | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/manifest.webmanifest | html | 404 | 1.04 s | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/apple-touch-icon.png | html | 404 | 1.02 s | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/content-grid.CzIIiNNE.css | html | 404 | 963 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/66.BdVZTyV0.css | html | 404 | 951 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/favicon.ico | html | 404 | 951 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/VideoWithLongPlay.DKnq7QFb.css | html | 404 | 946 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/Button.D_RWA4S8.css | html | 404 | 945 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/favicon.svg | html | 404 | 945 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/GlobalSearchResultList.DBGvNF94.css | html | 404 | 931 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/IndexUnderstandingVpn.BgM3NAyK.css | html | 404 | 928 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/2.CSZF2tOg.css | html | 404 | 919 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/MullvadCookie.Bh6ZLlQA.css | html | 404 | 905 ms | 0 B |
| https://mullvad.net/en/_app/immutable/assets/0.X8-HNnkP.css | html | 404 | 902 ms | 0 B |
| https://media.mullvad.net/web/desktop-2024.png?width=395 3rd party | images | 200 | 820 ms | 137.0 KB |
| https://media.mullvad.net/web/browser.png?width=600&height=517&aspect_ratio=600%3A517 3rd party | images | 200 | 800 ms | 129.9 KB |
| https://media.mullvad.net/andthen/15s/Mullvad_AND_THEN_teaser.mp4 3rd party | media | 200 | 743 ms | 1.83 MB |
| https://media.mullvad.net/andthen/15s/Mullvad_AND_THEN_teaser.webm 3rd party | media | 200 | 743 ms | 1.18 MB |
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