www.worldometers.info speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:12 UTC. Grade C (77/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 67 ms 24%
- TCP connect 38 ms 14%
- Server wait 174 ms 62%
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 279 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 645.2 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 91% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 97% 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 688 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.003), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 2.92 s, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Compress text responses - Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
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.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 645.2 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Compress text responses
high impact2 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is not compressed. That is 332.3 KB of compressible text.
Fix: Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
Render-blocking resources
high impact8 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (6 script(s), 2 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.
Cache static assets
medium impact18 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact7 third-party host(s) serve 628.1 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.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: adsbygoogle.js (201.1 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
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://cdn.worldometers.info/assets/rts-counter-timeframe-toggle.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.BS_1Sp_E.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 5.07 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/android-icon-192x192.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.06 s | 4.9 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-152x152.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.06 s | 4.8 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-144x144.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.06 s | 4.5 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-120x120.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.06 s | 3.8 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-114x114.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.06 s | 2.7 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/favicon-96x96.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.06 s | 2.4 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-60x60.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.06 s | 1.9 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/favicon.ico 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.06 s | 423 B |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/favicon-32x32.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.13 s | 1.5 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-57x57.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.13 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-180x180.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.12 s | 5.7 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-72x72.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.12 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/apple-icon-76x76.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.10 s | 2.1 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/assets/rts-live-counter-v2.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.umMbBzQL.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.08 s | 1.3 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/assets/page.B9k6RjYL.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.06 s | 5.8 KB |
| https://a.pub.network/worldometers-info/cls.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 965 ms | 427 B |
| https://www.realtimestatistics.net/rts/RTSp.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 957 ms | 5.4 KB |
| https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 920 ms | 131.2 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/img/worldometers-logo.gif 3rd party | images | 200 | 910 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 905 ms | 29.6 KB |
| https://cdn.worldometers.info/favicon/favicon-16x16.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 895 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://a.pub.network/worldometers-info/pubfig.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 884 ms | 33.3 KB |
| https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3701697624350410 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 882 ms | 201.1 KB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-ZDP3BFSX60 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 882 ms | 177.1 KB |
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