gizmodo.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:02 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 88 ms 27%
- TCP connect 26 ms 8%
- Server wait 207 ms 64%
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 321 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 1.42 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 96% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
Fix first: Render-blocking resources - 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.
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.
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Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 1.42 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact7 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (2 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.
Image delivery and format
medium impact0 image(s) over 200 KB and 5 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 1.42 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 62.0 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
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.
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://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1350721288-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 947 ms | 33.3 KB |
| https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=39636245&cv=3.9.1&cj=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 944 ms | 43 B |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/plug-in-prius-336x223.jpg | images | 200 | 929 ms | 14.5 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/Ledger-Atom-Crypto-Wallet-Android-Device-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 923 ms | 42.9 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/japan-skyline-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 914 ms | 14.9 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/X-Files_home_house-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 908 ms | 171.2 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/El-nino-waves-beach-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 901 ms | 166.2 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/04/Pete-Hegseth-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 894 ms | 93.2 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/world-eye-scanner-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 892 ms | 68.3 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2194586743-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 887 ms | 92.6 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-104884252-e1782329764467-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 885 ms | 9.9 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/12/plex-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 883 ms | 11.0 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/colossal-peter-jackson-moa-egg-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 880 ms | 62.1 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/world-eye-scanner-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 880 ms | 9.0 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/09/Huang-1280x854.jpg | images | 200 | 875 ms | 110.4 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/flock-camera-shutterstock-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 874 ms | 11.8 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/teslaroadster-336x189.jpg | images | 200 | 865 ms | 3.9 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/Robert_Picardo_Starfleet_Academy-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 864 ms | 80.4 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/quantum-computer-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 856 ms | 162.1 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/Ledger-Hardware-Wallet-Backdoored-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 845 ms | 55.5 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2217853041-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 845 ms | 23.4 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Waymo-Robotaxis-San-Francisco-1-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 845 ms | 18.0 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/09/Cybercab_78-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 845 ms | 16.9 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/Alef-flying-car-over-multiple-cars-including-Tesla-Roadster-Cybertruck-frame-at-0m24s-e1792168015551-336x224.jpg | images | 200 | 845 ms | 10.7 KB |
| https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/10/Microsoft-Surface-Laptop-Ultra-Review-13-1280x853.jpg | images | 200 | 844 ms | 106.1 KB |
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