soundcloud.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:35 UTC. Grade B (85/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 50 ms 13%
- TCP connect 37 ms 9%
- Server wait 306 ms 78%
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 393 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 1.80 MB over 21 request(s). Javascript files are 84% 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.
- 99% 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 1.66 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.046), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 450 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Total page weight - Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
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. 21 request(s) in total, 1.80 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Total page weight
high impactThe page transfers 1.80 MB across 21 request(s), with the document itself at 22.0 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact4 third-party host(s) serve 1.78 MB 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 impact3 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: 55-240c8d7e.js (780.4 KB), 0-5357b47f.js (199.1 KB), 56-990ddcf7.js (202.5 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://soundcloud.com/webmanifest.json | other | 200 | 853 ms | 791 B |
| https://cdn.cookielaw.org/consent/7e62c772-c97a-4d95-8d0a-f99bbeadcf61/otSDKStub.js 3rd party | javascript | 405 | 747 ms | 18 B |
| https://style.sndcdn.com/css/soehne-6ee1b930cae107f8f71f.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 702 ms | 221.6 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/1-094a523e.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 688 ms | 97.5 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/2-998abd65.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 687 ms | 187.2 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/55-240c8d7e.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 682 ms | 780.4 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/0-5357b47f.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 682 ms | 199.1 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/images/sc-icons/favicon-48x48-8466dd3758.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 678 ms | 5.0 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/images/sc-icons/favicon-c93ce58b59.ico 3rd party | images | 200 | 675 ms | 4.2 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/56-990ddcf7.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 672 ms | 202.5 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/18-ce4a5eae.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 668 ms | 16.4 KB |
| https://dwt.soundcloud.com/tags.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 665 ms | 48.7 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/57-2822e361.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 657 ms | 18.3 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/58-165c873b.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 657 ms | 1.8 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/59-ac0a49ce.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 657 ms | 805 B |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/css/app-c8b53cc5e0ed56538d06.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 653 ms | 22.7 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/images/errors/500-e5a180b7a8.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 653 ms | 8.6 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/images/errors/browser-9cdd4e6df7.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 653 ms | 2.3 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/images/loader-dark-45940ae3d4.gif 3rd party | images | 200 | 653 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://a-v2.sndcdn.com/assets/images/sc-icons/ios-a62dfc8fe7.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 652 ms | 3.1 KB |
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