www.meetup.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:59 UTC. Grade B (89/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 82 ms 29%
- TCP connect 49 ms 17%
- Server wait 156 ms 54%
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 287 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 1.31 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 95% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 95% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
Fix first: TLS certificate validity - Renew automatically (certbot with a working renewal timer) and alert on the certificate, not on the renew command, so a silent failure is caught weeks before a browser warning.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 1.31 MB across all of them.
Top issues
TLS certificate validity
high impactThe certificate for www.meetup.com has 14 day(s) left.
Fix: Renew automatically (certbot with a working renewal timer) and alert on the certificate, not on the renew command, so a silent failure is caught weeks before a browser warning.
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.
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 1.31 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 64.2 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact2 third-party host(s) serve 1.25 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.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact1 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://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/home/hero-right-2.webp?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 889 ms | 169.1 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/4/e/d/7/thumb_325460183.jpeg?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 852 ms | 2.7 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/home/hero-left-2.webp?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 838 ms | 192.8 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/c/7/5/9/thumb_326451033.jpeg?w=48 3rd party | images | 200 | 832 ms | 2.7 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/c/7/5/9/thumb_326451033.jpeg?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 832 ms | 2.7 KB |
| https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=792405807634160&ev=PageView&noscript=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 816 ms | 44 B |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/0/f/9/highres_536484825.jpeg 3rd party | images | 200 | 813 ms | 71.3 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/complex-icons/branded/ball.webp?w=48 3rd party | images | 200 | 813 ms | 17.7 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/7/6/c/d/thumb_267990413.jpeg?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 804 ms | 3.3 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/4/e/d/7/thumb_325460183.jpeg?w=48 3rd party | images | 200 | 803 ms | 2.7 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/2/7/c/highres_523849788.jpeg 3rd party | images | 200 | 801 ms | 170.5 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/a/3/f/thumb_325922623.jpeg?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 801 ms | 2.8 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/illustrations/specific/landingpage-hero-mobile.webp?w=3840 3rd party | images | 200 | 797 ms | 61.8 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/illustrations/specific/landingpage-hero-mobile.webp?w=640 3rd party | images | 200 | 794 ms | 61.8 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/complex-icons/branded/ball.webp?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 793 ms | 17.7 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/complex-icons/branded/people-1-2.webp?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 792 ms | 3.2 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/complex-icons/branded/people-1-2.webp?w=48 3rd party | images | 200 | 791 ms | 3.2 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/home/hero-left-2.webp?w=3840 3rd party | images | 200 | 790 ms | 192.8 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/7/6/c/d/thumb_267990413.jpeg?w=48 3rd party | images | 200 | 781 ms | 3.3 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/a/3/f/thumb_325922623.jpeg?w=48 3rd party | images | 200 | 781 ms | 2.8 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/home/hero-right-2.webp?w=3840 3rd party | images | 200 | 774 ms | 169.1 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/complex-icons/branded/heart.webp?w=48 3rd party | images | 200 | 773 ms | 14.5 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/next/images/complex-icons/branded/heart.webp?w=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 773 ms | 14.5 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/member/d/e/5/f/thumb_265436927.jpeg?w=48 3rd party | images | 200 | 771 ms | 3.0 KB |
| https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/9/3/highres_536460403.jpeg 3rd party | images | 200 | 769 ms | 94.9 KB |
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