www.nrk.no speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:53 UTC. Grade B (86/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.nrk.no/

20 October 2026 at 13:53 UTC · Free test · report pt_00c2cdf031c1
Grade
B
86/100
Performance84/100
Structure89/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

First byte (TTFB)614 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded2.80 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight117.4 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document67.9 KBbr
ProtocolHTTP/3server not sent
Third-party49.5 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 61 ms 10%
  • TCP connect 32 ms 5%
  • Server wait 521 ms 85%

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 64% of 4,999 pages tested here614 ms against a median of 448 ms
Page weightlighter than 86% of 4,999 pages tested here117.4 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedslower than 79% of 4,999 pages tested here2.80 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 took 614 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 117.4 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 42% 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.
  • 42% 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 828 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 105 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.

Mobile screenshot of www.nrk.no
Mobile 390 × 844 · 194.6 KB · page is 6000 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 paint828 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.001under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time105 mslong tasks during load
First contentful paint828 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight2.11 MB140 request(s), scripts included
Largest contentful paint828 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.001
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time105 ms
Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests
49.5 KB 42%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 117.4 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 614 ms. Of that, 521 ms was the server thinking and 93 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.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

3 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 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.

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

IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/cHZe0rXkf6ikJ8hG6CBn9QPsExfnccV0-zV1MY…
2.19 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/N06hDB4ksZlVKynKgrGSSg4jU0KnixaLWEXYH8…
2.12 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/V5rV2IY44IWk9bN6PYNcKQNCKClW-yqxTmORXY…
2.04 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/zVBzdG77G5wjcLsFv3S90AmUEBoDMoRc3Q9Ncp…
2.03 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/WO8703mOluflOlrnfa-tcQPdYTRd6kf_XuewBW…
2.01 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/cL_U50DHsogTwrzHWlIxjw-zQL36FaR-2lf14H…
2.00 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/d4K7zrzfUM8CzP3g7w0oCAoG_fCCPdEHgKa5Ow…
2.00 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/8pfuUYo-0IsMBD_KD88J9QDshrHC_77UkGLTCL…
1.98 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/cHZe0rXkf6ikJ8hG6CBn9Q5eC42d_MqQrWivc9…
1.97 s
IMAGESgfx.nrk.no/jxH7IVJ5YgeXCtcugLoVtgGp2gXgtYVdJlDbWu…
1.96 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://gfx.nrk.no/cHZe0rXkf6ikJ8hG6CBn9QPsExfnccV0-zV1MYo1Z1cA 3rd partyimages2002.19 s1.1 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/N06hDB4ksZlVKynKgrGSSg4jU0KnixaLWEXYH8TOY1xQ 3rd partyimages2002.12 s1.3 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/V5rV2IY44IWk9bN6PYNcKQNCKClW-yqxTmORXYtMxl2w 3rd partyimages2002.04 s1.0 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/zVBzdG77G5wjcLsFv3S90AmUEBoDMoRc3Q9Ncp6_O5-A 3rd partyimages2002.03 s1.3 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/WO8703mOluflOlrnfa-tcQPdYTRd6kf_XuewBWdr4Apw 3rd partyimages2002.01 s1.6 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/cL_U50DHsogTwrzHWlIxjw-zQL36FaR-2lf14HhnadCw 3rd partyimages2002.00 s1020 B
https://gfx.nrk.no/d4K7zrzfUM8CzP3g7w0oCAoG_fCCPdEHgKa5Owrka-CA 3rd partyimages2002.00 s1.6 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/8pfuUYo-0IsMBD_KD88J9QDshrHC_77UkGLTCLmqC1ZA 3rd partyimages2001.98 s1.3 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/cHZe0rXkf6ikJ8hG6CBn9Q5eC42d_MqQrWivc9ItWMJA 3rd partyimages2001.97 s827 B
https://gfx.nrk.no/jxH7IVJ5YgeXCtcugLoVtgGp2gXgtYVdJlDbWuEGt6_w 3rd partyimages2001.96 s916 B
https://gfx.nrk.no/H2LZrymSCrRzkrDsmypgkwOdUnvE55mbhayAL1o_85Pg 3rd partyimages2001.95 s1.2 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/8CpT15PxIfCspxYzKwAjKQc5CyBwnrkOqmQ616bO1IKg 3rd partyimages2001.94 s1.8 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/0MMSbIKlmpjc5O9y7KFjNQtu9-jiEz3Frkjc05DgjGBA 3rd partyimages2001.93 s869 B
https://gfx.nrk.no/8CpT15PxIfCspxYzKwAjKQhWxhykV2Fyu2Drm3kUvw_A 3rd partyimages2001.92 s1.7 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/FSxyo3S-hlGXZUezIYn2fQ3CwxQmNxDPZ9ehfZjCMC_A 3rd partyimages2001.92 s1.2 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/zVBzdG77G5wjcLsFv3S90An2Ejd7N_CIyRpkSA9q8bgg 3rd partyimages2001.87 s2.1 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/3cZzAQaT4VTdpZYnAvcd9wLfxRXywCiCMk9E3ZMzq0EA 3rd partyimages2001.85 s1.3 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/S61CaBiEpqZl36CGRli3EQyISoJj011Qxj2SJwYpbPug 3rd partyimages2001.83 s2.0 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/d4K7zrzfUM8CzP3g7w0oCAfKbVWuCbICe0icJqg2egZQ 3rd partyimages2001.83 s1.1 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/gjnucOUbpo-l9kPt-WR3Dg9fG31_R6T6P9Mw7L3QYNQw 3rd partyimages2001.83 s1.1 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/FSxyo3S-hlGXZUezIYn2fQ3CwxQmNxDPa6OKFvIEo2CQ 3rd partyimages2001.81 s1.1 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/V5rV2IY44IWk9bN6PYNcKQXHloUPRq1kh8mXqqawh13A 3rd partyimages2001.80 s1.4 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/jxH7IVJ5YgeXCtcugLoVtgaSgmuOt2QBB7h1Cv2-CttA 3rd partyimages2001.80 s1.3 KB
https://static.dh.nrk.no/modul/boktober-2026/assets/boktober-logo.CUxM7xqh.webp 3rd partyimages2001.49 s18.6 KB
https://gfx.nrk.no/H2LZrymSCrRzkrDsmypgkwOLPtJwylLK-islhDIVGtTw 3rd partyimages2001.35 s916 B
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