scryfall.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:01 UTC. Grade B (86/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 87 ms 25%
- TCP connect 68 ms 19%
- Server wait 198 ms 56%
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 353 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 778.0 KB over 17 request(s). Images files are 63% 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.
- 59% 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 796 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
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.
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. 17 request(s) in total, 778.0 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Cache static assets
medium impact1 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 impact3 third-party host(s) serve 457.8 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.
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://cards.scryfall.io/grid/front/3/f/3fc7210c-da23-4cec-9195-4de75587f40f.webp?1783931029 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.13 s | 69.4 KB |
| https://scryfall.com/icon-196.png?v=0e5536ebd551 | images | 200 | 5.13 s | 22.2 KB |
| https://scryfall.com/manifest.webmanifest?v=0e5536ebd551 | other | 200 | 5.13 s | 251 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-3P82LCZY01 3rd party | other | 0 | 648 ms | 0 B |
| https://cards.scryfall.io/grid/front/e/5/e5ec8ad6-57ad-4bce-9c5e-a7205d5f4bea.webp?1783921472 3rd party | images | 200 | 637 ms | 54.5 KB |
| https://cards.scryfall.io/grid/front/c/a/ca5a571a-f323-473a-b5ec-f881bea82ce1.webp?1783943205 3rd party | images | 200 | 634 ms | 76.9 KB |
| https://cards.scryfall.io/grid/front/8/5/85da9395-42e9-4408-832d-74ea4b01256b.webp?1783945915 3rd party | images | 200 | 632 ms | 68.9 KB |
| https://cards.scryfall.io/grid/front/8/f/8f251c71-0e83-424d-9e0e-85790289087c.webp?1783941377 3rd party | images | 200 | 628 ms | 66.0 KB |
| https://scryfall.com/apple-touch-icon.png?v=0e5536ebd551 | images | 200 | 628 ms | 18.6 KB |
| https://scryfall.com/favicon.ico?v=0e5536ebd551 | images | 200 | 626 ms | 2.8 KB |
| https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js?token=5d64c17775954f64a21257761c8197d9 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 621 ms | 10.0 KB |
| https://cards.scryfall.io/grid/front/d/8/d85a6369-c07f-47d5-8448-72d8ec7e7898.webp?1783937522 3rd party | images | 200 | 617 ms | 50.6 KB |
| https://cards.scryfall.io/grid/front/6/f/6f87292c-0140-44d7-881e-2e8c9ff737a1.webp?1783937916 3rd party | images | 200 | 613 ms | 61.6 KB |
| https://scryfall.com/assets/scryfall-4b8464b49c37da6c59ad53f7e72f9035ae949571ff984fe94d6778c7fd49b090.js | javascript | 200 | 603 ms | 149.5 KB |
| https://scryfall.com/assets/flags/us-065305f1be70371a34f4af5ebedae3859cee5b7831e3b4957b7c0daf915007ed.png | images | 200 | 575 ms | 1022 B |
| https://scryfall.com/assets/scryfall-017afa8f65899d8d936fa8fc85c5a1f041a428ff7edb0d41bca7587f6d9f9211.css | css | 200 | 572 ms | 115.8 KB |
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