www.rs-online.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:53 UTC. Grade A (93/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.rs-online.com/

20 October 2026 at 14:53 UTC · Free test · report pt_dae456d048fe
Grade
A
93/100
Performance100/100
Structure83/100

12 audit(s) passed, 4 need work

First byte (TTFB)152 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.08 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests12document + assets
Page weight459.1 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document26.6 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/2AkamaiNetStorage
Third-party432.0 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 51 ms 34%
  • TCP connect 2 ms 1%
  • Server wait 99 ms 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 bytefaster than 98% of 4,999 pages tested here152 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightlighter than 61% of 4,999 pages tested here459.1 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 90% of 4,999 pages tested here1.08 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends fewer requests than 86% of 4,999 pages tested here12 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 152 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
  • The page transfers 459.1 KB over 12 request(s), which is lean. Images files are 63% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • 94% 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 1.82 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.054), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 138 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.

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.

Mobile screenshot of www.rs-online.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 41.1 KB · page is 6000 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 paint1.82 sgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.054under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time138 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint1.82 sfirst content on screen
Browser page weight1.00 MB33 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests1blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint1.82 s
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.054
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time138 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 7 requests
290.8 KB 63%
Javascript 1 request
141.1 KB 31%
Html 2 requests
570 B 0%
Other 1 request
58 B 0%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 12 request(s) in total, 459.1 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Image delivery and format

high impact

1 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.

Third-party weight

medium impact

4 third-party host(s) serve 432.0 KB 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.

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.

Strict-Transport-Security

low impact

HSTS is not set, so the first visit on a hostile network can still be downgraded to HTTP.

Fix: Send Strict-Transport-Security with a max-age of at least six months. Add includeSubDomains once every subdomain is HTTPS.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

HTMLrsgroup.com/assets/img/icons/favicon.ico
929 ms
OTHERuk.rs-online.com/static/fonts/ion-fonts.css
815 ms
IMAGESmedia.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/youtube.svg
519 ms
IMAGESmedia.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/linkedin.svg
516 ms
IMAGESmedia.rs-online.com/siteImages/rootDomain/hero-image.png
514 ms
IMAGESmedia.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/facebook.svg
514 ms
IMAGESmedia.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/instagram.svg
493 ms
IMAGESmedia.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/twitter.svg
491 ms
HTMLwww.rs-online.com/RsYsCZ0ibGgfR/NsT4Ql/5Cwk6CZc/1L9zptzw…
483 ms
JAVASCRIPTnexus.ensighten.com/rscomponents/responsiveprod/Bootstrap.js
467 ms

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://rsgroup.com/assets/img/icons/favicon.ico 3rd partyhtml404929 ms103 B
https://uk.rs-online.com/static/fonts/ion-fonts.css 3rd partyother404815 ms58 B
https://media.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/youtube.svg 3rd partyimages200519 ms132 B
https://media.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/linkedin.svg 3rd partyimages200516 ms299 B
https://media.rs-online.com/siteImages/rootDomain/hero-image.png 3rd partyimages200514 ms287.9 KB
https://media.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/facebook.svg 3rd partyimages200514 ms340 B
https://media.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/instagram.svg 3rd partyimages200493 ms316 B
https://media.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/twitter.svg 3rd partyimages200491 ms343 B
https://www.rs-online.com/RsYsCZ0ibGgfR/NsT4Ql/5Cwk6CZc/1L9zptzwwkmctXat/Y3R7TH0B/VGs/MexICK1Ihtml403483 ms467 B
https://nexus.ensighten.com/rscomponents/responsiveprod/Bootstrap.js 3rd partyjavascript200467 ms141.1 KB
https://media.rs-online.com/siteImages/footer/tiktok.svg 3rd partyimages200467 ms1.5 KB
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