askubuntu.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:35 UTC. Grade A (93/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 70 ms 20%
- TCP connect 37 ms 11%
- Server wait 235 ms 69%
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 187.7 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 74% 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/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 45% 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 1.30 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 42 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
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.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 187.7 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact10 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (7 script(s), 3 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.
Third-party weight
low impact5 third-party host(s) serve 83.8 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.
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://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-weQLu1Im8es/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABEg/4bXLPukGRgA/s32-rj/photo.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 993 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-NEE4W435Uls/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABQ/O7vbrieGHWc/s32-rj/photo.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 971 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://i.sstatic.net/xNPjb.png?s=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 962 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 920 ms | 29.7 KB |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fbaac339f7a2ac9bae3c8b26622a124c?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG&f=y&so-version=2 3rd party | images | 200 | 920 ms | 1010 B |
| https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/gpp.stub.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 907 ms | 27.7 KB |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9e263681488308e5e5d5e548b2f9bc99?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG 3rd party | images | 200 | 905 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/otSDKStub.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 893 ms | 13.6 KB |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Js/google-analytics.en.js?v=48615a9a9bc4 | javascript | 200 | 889 ms | 2.3 KB |
| https://i.sstatic.net/8oLNV.jpg?s=32 3rd party | images | 200 | 868 ms | 636 B |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Sites/askubuntu/Img/logo.svg?v=472cf2768bba | images | 200 | 861 ms | 4.2 KB |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Img/stack-internal-left-tile-pinned.svg?v=16878b0d76c5 | images | 200 | 861 ms | 4.1 KB |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Img/stack-internal-left-tile-drawer.svg?v=0056d71cd7e6 | images | 200 | 861 ms | 3.2 KB |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Js/third-party/npm/@stackoverflow/stacks/dist/js/stacks.min.js?v=79a2fd33ef4b | javascript | 200 | 860 ms | 30.5 KB |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Js/stub.en.js?v=c4a2a2be622d | javascript | 200 | 860 ms | 18.9 KB |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Js/home/index.en.js?v=38002111626e | javascript | 200 | 860 ms | 14.0 KB |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/15456f0f1c760e334cc75582d6ea1dda?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG&f=y&so-version=2 3rd party | images | 200 | 860 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/941c2d407892e1e8ff4f2da290d04c0c?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG&f=y&so-version=2 3rd party | images | 200 | 860 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/86ca07b9ac1d96fb9a9bda0e45b9973b?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG&f=y&so-version=2 3rd party | images | 200 | 860 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/072e8511b51c9a224c0f6f34d58f6ada?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG&f=y&so-version=2 3rd party | images | 200 | 860 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a658b8d7d40a210f03e5913ba1e3f939?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG&f=y&so-version=2 3rd party | images | 200 | 860 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Js/webpack-chunks/5102.en.js?v=1e6c2976e394 | javascript | 200 | 860 ms | 977 B |
| https://askubuntu.com/Content/Js/sprinkles/cookie-consent.en.js?v=7ee6963139c5 | javascript | 200 | 860 ms | 815 B |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f43ebea01a6f92f6d117798d146c9ed4?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG 3rd party | images | 200 | 860 ms | 756 B |
| https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a007be5a61f6aa8f3e85ae2fc18dd66e?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG 3rd party | images | 200 | 860 ms | 499 B |
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