www.perplexity.ai speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC. Grade A (96/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 47 ms 25%
- TCP connect 29 ms 16%
- Server wait 110 ms 59%
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 server answered in 185 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 499.7 KB over 11 request(s), which is lean. Fonts files are 81% of it, so subset the fonts and stop preloading the weights you do not render.
- 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.
- The largest element painted at 264 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. 11 request(s) in total, 499.7 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Cache static assets
medium impact6 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 impact4 third-party host(s) serve 475.9 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.
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://r2cdn.perplexity.ai/js/count/0.1.0/loader.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 799 ms | 958 B |
| https://edge.perplexity.ai/image 3rd party | images | 200 | 751 ms | 43 B |
| https://pplx-next-static-public.perplexity.ai/_spa/assets/index.html__v2-DL6vRaob.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 687 ms | 216 B |
| https://pplx-next-static-public.perplexity.ai/_spa/assets/style__v2-C9F9Dn44.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 660 ms | 69.8 KB |
| https://frontend-cdn.perplexity.ai/_agi_assets/fonts/FKGroteskNeue.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 639 ms | 111.3 KB |
| https://frontend-cdn.perplexity.ai/_agi_assets/fonts/PPLX-Serif-Beta-R6-VF.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 619 ms | 184.3 KB |
| https://frontend-cdn.perplexity.ai/_agi_assets/fonts/PPLX-Sans-Beta-R6-VF.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 614 ms | 109.3 KB |
| https://www.perplexity.ai/favicon.svg | images | 200 | 578 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://www.perplexity.ai/apple-touch-icon.png | images | 200 | 571 ms | 8.7 KB |
| https://www.perplexity.ai/favicon.png | images | 200 | 568 ms | 9.5 KB |
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