flagcounter.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 16:18 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 70 ms 20%
- TCP connect 79 ms 23%
- Server wait 193 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 342 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 156.9 KB over 19 request(s). Javascript files are 71% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 988 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.016), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 105 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.
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. 19 request(s) in total, 156.9 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Compress text responses
high impact3 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is not compressed. That is 105.8 KB 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 impact6 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (4 script(s), 2 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.
Cache static assets
medium impact16 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.
Mobile viewport
medium impactNo viewport meta tag, so a phone renders the desktop layout scaled down.
Fix: Add a viewport meta tag with width=device-width and an initial scale of 1.
Strict-Transport-Security
low impactHSTS is not set, so the first visit on a hostile network can still be downgraded to HTTP.
Fix: Send Strict-Transport-Security with a max-age of at least six months. Add includeSubDomains once every subdomain is HTTPS.
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://flagcounter.com/images/gem_okay.png | images | 200 | 1.40 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/images/reset.png | images | 200 | 1.35 s | 668 B |
| https://images.boardhost.com/invisible.gif 3rd party | images | 200 | 947 ms | 807 B |
| https://images.boardhost.com/2/icon_alert.gif 3rd party | images | 200 | 937 ms | 930 B |
| https://flagcounter.com/images/arrow.gif | images | 200 | 934 ms | 895 B |
| https://flagcounter.com/images/fc_bw_small.png | images | 200 | 931 ms | 3.1 KB |
| https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 929 ms | 609 B |
| https://flagcounter.com/css/images/btn-get-counter.gif | images | 200 | 927 ms | 3.4 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/images/holiday.png | images | 200 | 918 ms | 10.4 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/images/fcflag.gif | images | 200 | 918 ms | 2.3 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/js/thickbox.js | javascript | 200 | 910 ms | 5.8 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/css/thickbox.css | css | 200 | 910 ms | 3.9 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/js/jquery.js | javascript | 200 | 905 ms | 70.5 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/css/style2.css | css | 200 | 905 ms | 6.5 KB |
| https://s01.flagcounter.com/count2/88/bg_FFFFFF/txt_000000/border_CCCCCC/columns_2/maxflags_10/viewers_0/labels_0/pageviews_0/flags_0/ 3rd party | html | 302 | 902 ms | 0 B |
| https://flagcounter.com/js/jscolor.js | javascript | 200 | 899 ms | 23.3 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/js/main3.js?122611 | javascript | 200 | 893 ms | 12.0 KB |
| https://flagcounter.com/loading.gif | images | 200 | 880 ms | 4.4 KB |
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