rule34.us speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:34 UTC. Grade A (94/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 67 ms 19%
- TCP connect 82 ms 23%
- Server wait 207 ms 58%
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 arrived in 356 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 283.8 KB over 20 request(s). Javascript files are 64% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 56% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
Fix first: Cache static assets - Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.
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.
The headless browser did not capture this page when the test ran, so only the server measurements are shown.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 20 request(s) in total, 283.8 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Cache static assets
medium impact6 asset(s) answer without a Cache-Control max-age, so browsers revalidate them on every visit.
Fix: Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.
Strict-Transport-Security
low impactHSTS 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
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://rule34.us/v1/post-view.js | javascript | 200 | 1.03 s | 701 B |
| https://rule34.us/v1/jquery-hotkeys.js | javascript | 200 | 945 ms | 2.0 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/jquery.lazyload.min.js | javascript | 200 | 917 ms | 1.8 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/autocomplete2.js?v1 | javascript | 200 | 911 ms | 4.7 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/jquery-ui.min.js | javascript | 200 | 910 ms | 11.4 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/counter/6.gif | images | 200 | 899 ms | 2.1 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/counter/7.gif | images | 200 | 897 ms | 2.0 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/counter/8.gif | images | 200 | 893 ms | 1.9 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/counter/5.gif | images | 200 | 889 ms | 2.2 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/counter/3.gif | images | 200 | 885 ms | 1.8 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/counter/1.gif | images | 200 | 882 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/r34BigLogo2.png | images | 200 | 877 ms | 85.1 KB |
| https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 871 ms | 30.3 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/icons/search.svg | images | 200 | 871 ms | 389 B |
| https://rule34.us/v1/bar.png?5 | images | 200 | 867 ms | 902 B |
| https://rule34.us/favicon.png | images | 200 | 865 ms | 509 B |
| https://rule34.us/v1/autocomplete.css?v7 | css | 200 | 860 ms | 1.4 KB |
| https://rule34.us/v1/post-index.css?v2 | css | 200 | 859 ms | 1.4 KB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-170299804-1 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 831 ms | 129.6 KB |
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