developer.apple.com/icloud speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:25 UTC. Grade A (93/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://developer.apple.com/icloud/

20 October 2026 at 12:25 UTC · Free test · report pt_f1958d25cb12
Grade
A
93/100
Performance100/100
Structure82/100

12 audit(s) passed, 4 need work

First byte (TTFB)211 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.34 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight107.5 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document107.5 KBno compression
ProtocolHTTP/2Apple

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 57 ms 27%
  • TCP connect 14 ms 7%
  • Server wait 140 ms 66%

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 bytefaster than 91% of 4,999 pages tested here211 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightlighter than 87% of 4,999 pages tested here107.5 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 80% of 4,999 pages tested here1.34 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 arrived in 211 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 107.5 KB over 26 request(s).
  • It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • The largest element painted at 628 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • Layout stayed still (CLS 0.001), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
  • The main thread was blocked for 28 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.

Fix first: Compress text responses - Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.

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.

Desktop screenshot of developer.apple.com
Desktop 1366 × 768 · 94.6 KB · page is 3811 px tall
Mobile screenshot of developer.apple.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 64.8 KB · page is 4528 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 paint628 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.001under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time28 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint356 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight3.15 MB51 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint628 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.001
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time28 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 107.5 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Compress text responses

high impact

0 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is compressed. That is 0 B of compressible text.

Fix: Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

15 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (7 script(s), 8 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.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 107.5 KB. A bloated document delays every other request, because nothing else can start until it is parsed.

Fix: Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.

Avoid extra redirects

medium impact

1 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

HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/ac-localnav.buil…
1.13 s
JAVASCRIPTsfss.cdn-apple.com/2.0.0-beta.2/sf-symbol.js
1.13 s
HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/suggest-lang.js
1.12 s
HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/includes/global-session-…
1.10 s
HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/ac-globalnav.bui…
1.09 s
HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/global-logout.js
1.06 s
HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/lib/jquery/jquer…
1.05 s
HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/metrics/scripts/analytic…
1.04 s
HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/language-locales.js
1.04 s
HTMLdeveloper.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/retinate.js
1.04 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://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/ac-localnav.built.jshtml4041.13 s0 B
https://sfss.cdn-apple.com/2.0.0-beta.2/sf-symbol.js?58122624293 3rd partyjavascript4031.13 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/suggest-lang.js?50222638203html4041.12 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/includes/global-session-nav/session.jshtml4041.10 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/ac-globalnav.built.js?35212621148html4041.09 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/global-logout.js?35212621148html4041.06 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/lib/jquery/jquery-3.6.0.min.js?35212621148html4041.05 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/metrics/scripts/analytics-module.js?35212621148html4041.04 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/language-locales.js?50222638203html4041.04 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/retinate.js?35212621148html4041.04 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/settings.js?35212621148html4041.03 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/favicon.icohtml4041.03 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/DeveloperBreadcrumbs.js?35212621148html4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/elements/icons/icloud/icloud-96x96_2x.pnghtml4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/icloud/images/screen-hero-large_2x.png?1html4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/elements/icons/xcode-s/xcode-s-96x96_2x.pnghtml4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/styles/dark-mode.css?34212621148html4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/styles/localization.css?34212621148html4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/localnav.jshtml4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/color-scheme-toggle.jshtml4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/scripts/language-dropdown.js?51212659264html4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/icloud/images/screen-hero-small_2x.png?1html4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/icloud/images/screen-hero-medium_2x.png?1html4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/styles/global.dist.css?19212626191html4041.02 s0 B
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/assets/metrics/scripts/analytics.jshtml4041.02 s0 B
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