www.refinery29.com/en-us speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 16:13 UTC. Grade A (96/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 67 ms 24%
- TCP connect 54 ms 19%
- Server wait 163 ms 57%
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 284 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 569.1 KB over 19 request(s). Images files are 85% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- 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 764 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.040), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 625 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. 19 request(s) in total, 569.1 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 impact2 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://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/runtime.31bd0cf2b93b43cdab7e.js | html | 404 | 849 ms | 69 B |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/9aa89696be7da8b249e2ee2622a111e9.png | images | 404 | 826 ms | 41.1 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/d68e2ddc49f6065953daf57eac5b849a.png | images | 404 | 824 ms | 41.1 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/cda4774d79df76d9c5ab2dfba3784155.png | images | 404 | 821 ms | 41.1 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/vendor.697ececf965052fcc892.js | html | 404 | 818 ms | 67 B |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/1ce585852b9e9a8cba36762b911e0f5f.png | images | 404 | 807 ms | 41.1 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/b3658fb2d9482c50df8996241fb2b67d.png | images | 404 | 801 ms | 41.1 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/6a9d712b4b1480df334054a94146cc34.png | images | 404 | 789 ms | 41.1 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/c5a8ae3dd50e6ebe17044593c2c7ee0c.svg | images | 404 | 787 ms | 8.2 KB |
| https://a.pub.network/core/pubfig/cls.css 3rd party | other | 404 | 786 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/90e3b0501ff143bd058ecb3f754a4430.png | images | 404 | 783 ms | 41.1 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/d27ad8510dcf0eef13f6419f4f9a76e6.svg | images | 404 | 780 ms | 8.2 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/scripts.c2cb9ca4b9da2c2e861e.js | html | 404 | 779 ms | 66 B |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/styles.ce1ad613d622d4862d0f.css | html | 404 | 762 ms | 67 B |
| https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/assets/ads.3ebee5bbde688b96a747.js | html | 404 | 751 ms | 64 B |
| https://www.refinery29.com/images/12009624.jpg?format=webp&width=1800&height=675&quality=85&crop=2000%2C751%2Cx0%2Cy1177 | images | 200 | 730 ms | 125.6 KB |
| https://www.refinery29.com/images/12009624.jpg?format=webp&width=760&height=570&quality=85&crop=4%3A3 | images | 200 | 723 ms | 51.4 KB |
| https://web-statics-cdn.refinery29.com/vendor/ad-lib/v3_2_0/vice-ad-lib.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 712 ms | 25.2 KB |
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