www.mercadolibre.cl speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:28 UTC. Grade A (90/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.mercadolibre.cl/

20 October 2026 at 14:28 UTC · Free test · report pt_da1aa960c9dc

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Grade

90/100

Performance90/100

Structure89/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)535 msmeasured from this server

Fully loaded1.77 sfirst byte + slowest asset

Requests26document + assets

Page weight75.7 KBcompressed transfer

HTML document75.2 KBbr

ProtocolHTTP/3nginx

Third-party450 Bother hosts

Where the first byte went

DNS lookup 85 ms 16%
TCP connect 60 ms 11%
Server wait 389 ms 73%

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 58% of 4,999 pages tested here535 ms against a median of 448 ms

Page weightlighter than 89% of 4,999 pages tested here75.7 KB against a median of 650.5 KB

Fully loadedfaster than 54% of 4,999 pages tested here1.77 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 535 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 75.7 KB over 26 request(s).
The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
The largest element painted at 844 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
The main thread was blocked for 9 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 www.mercadolibre.cl — **Mobile** 390 × 844 · 114.1 KB · page is 3336 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 paint844 msgood is under 2.5 s

Cumulative layout shift0.000under 0.1 is stable

Total blocking time9 mslong tasks during load

First contentful paint760 msfirst content on screen

Browser page weight4.01 MB191 request(s), scripts included

Failed requests1blocked or unreachable

Largest contentful paint844 ms

Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s

Cumulative layout shift0.000

Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25

Total blocking time9 ms

Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Html 25 requests

450 B 1%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 75.7 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 535 ms. Of that, 389 ms was the server thinking and 145 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 impact

5 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (2 script(s), 3 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.

Avoid extra redirects

medium impact

1 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

HTMLhttp2.mlstatic.com/D_NQ_2X_924135-MLA117954129716_102026-…

1.23 s

HTMLhttp2.mlstatic.com/resources/frontend/statics/loyal/partn…

1.18 s