betterstack.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:53 UTC. Grade A (98/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 89 ms 45%
- TCP connect 16 ms 8%
- Server wait 93 ms 47%
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 server answered in 199 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 822.2 KB over 17 request(s). Images files are 43% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 22% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
- The main thread was blocked for 499 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Image delivery and format - 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.
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. 17 request(s) in total, 822.2 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Image delivery and format
medium impact0 image(s) over 200 KB and 1 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.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact1 redirect hop(s) before the page load started, each one a full round trip before the first byte.
Fix: Link to the canonical URL (and make sure http, the apex domain and www all point at it) so no visitor pays a redirect first.
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://px.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=8770794&fmt=gif 3rd party | other | 302 | 853 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1062799887416376&ev=PageView&noscript=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 850 ms | 44 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-9FLKD0MQYY 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 836 ms | 183.3 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/static/fonts/Helvetica/HelveticaNowDisplay-Medium-1.0.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 826 ms | 44.2 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/assets/v2/homepage-v3/flare-sm-e5829b13.png | images | 200 | 825 ms | 169.4 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/assets/v2/homepage-v3/customers-336920c0.svg | images | 200 | 825 ms | 33.4 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/assets/v2/homepage-v3/hero-carousel/ebpf-service-map-13ad9019.jpg | images | 200 | 824 ms | 79.1 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/assets/favicon-64296699.png | images | 200 | 809 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/assets/v2/homepage-v3/hero-carousel/ebpf-service-map-sm-057621f5.jpg | images | 200 | 803 ms | 39.8 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/assets/v2/homepage-v3/better-stack-logo-3d-5c6cab03.png | images | 200 | 802 ms | 6.6 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/assets/v2/homepage-v3/carousel-card-bg-48b67fdb.png | images | 200 | 796 ms | 22.2 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/assets/betterstack_v2-25924e90.css | css | 200 | 791 ms | 58.8 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/static/fonts/Helvetica/HelveticaNowDisplay-Bold-1.0.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 790 ms | 44.3 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/static/fonts/Helvetica/HelveticaNowText-Bold-1.0.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 784 ms | 34.3 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/static/fonts/Helvetica/HelveticaNowText-Medium-1.0.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 782 ms | 36.3 KB |
| https://betterstack.com/static/fonts/Helvetica/HelveticaNowText-Regular-1.0.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 782 ms | 34.2 KB |
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