www.dfn.de speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:18 UTC. Grade C (73/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.dfn.de/

20 October 2026 at 14:18 UTC · Free test · report pt_ea07b24123d4
Grade
C
73/100
Performance76/100
Structure68/100

10 audit(s) passed, 6 need work

First byte (TTFB)766 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded2.10 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight1.71 MBcompressed transfer
HTML document10.2 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3Apache
Third-party2.0 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 53 ms 7%
  • TCP connect 160 ms 21%
  • Server wait 552 ms 72%

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

First byteslower than 74% of 4,999 pages tested here766 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightheavier than 77% of 4,999 pages tested here1.71 MB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedslower than 61% of 4,999 pages tested here2.10 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends more requests than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here26 against a median of 26

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 took 766 ms. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
  • The page transfers 1.71 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 92% 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.
  • The largest element painted at 1.82 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • The main thread was blocked for 15 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.

Fix first: Server response time (TTFB) - Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.

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.

Mobile screenshot of www.dfn.de
Mobile 390 × 844 · 120.8 KB · page is 4823 px tall

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.

Largest contentful paint1.82 sgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.000under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time15 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint1.20 sfirst content on screen
Browser page weight541.2 KB29 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint1.82 s
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.000
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time15 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 13 requests
1.57 MB 92%
Javascript 7 requests
79.5 KB 5%
Css 5 requests
52.6 KB 3%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 1.71 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 766 ms. Of that, 552 ms was the server thinking and 213 ms was connection setup. A first byte under 400 ms is what a visitor feels as instant.

Fix: Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.

Image delivery and format

high impact

3 image(s) over 200 KB and 6 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.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

5 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 script(s), 5 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.

Total page weight

high impact

The page transfers 1.71 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 10.2 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

Cache static assets

medium impact

11 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.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

JAVASCRIPTwww.dfn.de/wp-content/themes/dfn/dist/app.js
1.34 s
IMAGESwww.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Podcast-Log…
1.29 s
IMAGESwww.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2-800x800.png
1.27 s
IMAGESwww.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/PXL_2026100…
1.23 s
IMAGESwww.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DFN_Infogra…
1.19 s
IMAGESwww.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DFN_Infogra…
1.19 s
CSSwww.dfn.de/wp-content/themes/dfn/dist/main.css
1.17 s
CSSwww.dfn.de/wp-includes/css/dashicons.min.css
1.16 s
IMAGESwww.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DFN_Infogra…
1.16 s
JAVASCRIPTwww.dfn.de/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/incl…
1.16 s

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

RequestTypeStatusTimeSize
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/themes/dfn/dist/app.js?ver=1792486577javascript2001.34 s65.0 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Podcast-Logo-weiss-800x800.pngimages2001.29 s138.3 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2-800x800.pngimages2001.27 s314.1 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/PXL_20261006_080315547.MP_bb_quadrat-800x800.jpgimages2001.23 s130.0 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DFN_Infografik_WebsiteBuehne_02-1600x580.jpgimages2001.19 s52.3 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DFN_Infografik_WebsiteBuehne_03-1600x580.jpgimages2001.19 s60.6 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/themes/dfn/dist/main.css?ver=1792486567css2001.17 s14.4 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-includes/css/dashicons.min.css?ver=6.9.10css2001.16 s34.9 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DFN_Infografik_WebsiteBuehne_01-1600x580.jpgimages2001.16 s158.6 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/swv/js/index.js?ver=6.1.7javascript2001.16 s3.4 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/js/index.js?ver=6.1.7javascript2001.15 s4.2 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/logo_favicon-gros-352x352.pngimages2001.15 s9.9 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/logo_favicon-gros-150x150.pngimages2001.15 s3.2 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/themes/dfn/assets/tracking-events.jsjavascript2001.15 s841 B
https://www.dfn.de/wp-includes/js/dist/hooks.min.js?ver=dd5603f07f9220ed27f1javascript2001.15 s1.9 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/tablepress-combined.min.css?ver=5css2001.15 s1.8 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/style.css?ver=2.8.2css2001.15 s595 B
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/veranstaltungsreihe1.svgimages2001.14 s782 B
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Newscenter-Teaser-800x800.pngimages2001.14 s293.9 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-includes/js/dist/i18n.min.js?ver=c26c3dc7bed366793375javascript2001.14 s2.2 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/css/styles.css?ver=6.1.7css2001.14 s1.0 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Spectrum-Sharing-Verbindungen-vom-DFN-und-SURF1-800x800.pngimages2001.13 s348.9 KB
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/veranstaltungsreihe2.svgimages2001.12 s849 B
https://www.dfn.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MB_mit_DT_01_2-Firefly-Upscaler-2x-Skalierung_quadrat-800x800.jpgimages2001.10 s95.7 KB
https://plausible.io/js/script.tagged-events.outbound-links.file-downloads.js 3rd partyjavascript200970 ms2.0 KB
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