www.carwale.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:26 UTC. Grade A (91/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.carwale.com/

20 October 2026 at 15:26 UTC · Free test · report pt_f83998b35a68
Grade
A
91/100
Performance91/100
Structure91/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)526 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.53 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests17document + assets
Page weight224.5 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document65.4 KBbr
ProtocolHTTP/3CloudFront
Third-party159.1 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 98 ms 19%
  • TCP connect 46 ms 9%
  • Server wait 382 ms 73%

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 57% of 4,999 pages tested here526 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightlighter than 78% of 4,999 pages tested here224.5 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 68% of 4,999 pages tested here1.53 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends fewer requests than 82% of 4,999 pages tested here17 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 526 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 224.5 KB over 17 request(s). Images files are 32% 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.
  • 71% 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 1.16 s, 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 188 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.

Desktop screenshot of www.carwale.com
Desktop 1366 × 768 · 463.5 KB · page is 5628 px tall
Mobile screenshot of www.carwale.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 183.9 KB · page is 5297 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 paint1.16 sgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.001under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time188 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint1.01 sfirst content on screen
Browser page weight1.47 MB105 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint1.16 s
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.001
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time188 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 8 requests
72.7 KB 32%
Fonts 2 requests
55.4 KB 25%
Other 3 requests
27.6 KB 12%
Css 1 request
3.3 KB 1%
Html 2 requests
184 B 0%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 17 request(s) in total, 224.5 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 526 ms. Of that, 382 ms was the server thinking and 144 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.

Cache static assets

medium impact

3 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.

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

IMAGESimgd.aeplcdn.com/1920x580/media/cw/no5qv9b_1808753.jpg
1.00 s
IMAGESimgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/cw/static/icons/svg/tools/calendar…
962 ms
OTHERwww.carwale.com/manifest.webmanifest.json
944 ms
IMAGESimgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/cw/static/icons/new-header/logo.svg
918 ms
IMAGESimgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/cw/static/icons/svg/tools/calendar…
723 ms
HTMLwww.googletagmanager.com/ns.html
722 ms
FONTSstc.aeplcdn.com/fonts/lato-regular.woff
710 ms
FONTSstc.aeplcdn.com/fonts/lato-bold.woff
700 ms
OTHERstc.aeplcdn.com/fonts/lato-bold.woff2
697 ms
IMAGESimgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/cw/design15/cw-logo.ico
697 ms

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://imgd.aeplcdn.com/1920x580/media/cw/no5qv9b_1808753.jpg 3rd partyimages2001.00 s65.8 KB
https://imgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/cw/static/icons/svg/tools/calendar-charcoal.svg 3rd partyimages200962 ms640 B
https://www.carwale.com/manifest.webmanifest.json?v=1other405944 ms0 B
https://imgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/cw/static/icons/new-header/logo.svg 3rd partyimages200918 ms3.5 KB
https://imgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/cw/static/icons/svg/tools/calendar.svg 3rd partyimages200723 ms640 B
https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-P5VZJNVV 3rd partyhtml200722 ms92 B
https://stc.aeplcdn.com/fonts/lato-regular.woff 3rd partyfonts200710 ms28.0 KB
https://stc.aeplcdn.com/fonts/lato-bold.woff 3rd partyfonts200700 ms27.4 KB
https://stc.aeplcdn.com/fonts/lato-bold.woff2 3rd partyother200697 ms13.8 KB
https://imgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/cw/design15/cw-logo.ico?v1 3rd partyimages200697 ms1.1 KB
https://imgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/statics/grey-1x1.svg 3rd partyimages200697 ms234 B
https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-W2Z3ZM 3rd partyhtml200697 ms92 B
https://stc.aeplcdn.com/staticminv2/css/main-desktop-dcb821d8.ab6dda00f.css 3rd partycss200686 ms3.3 KB
https://stc.aeplcdn.com/fonts/lato-regular.woff2 3rd partyother200677 ms13.7 KB
https://imgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/statics/grey.gif 3rd partyimages200668 ms457 B
https://imgd.aeplcdn.com/0x0/statics/grey-16x9.svg 3rd partyimages200662 ms236 B
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