apple.news speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:02 UTC. Grade A (98/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 86 ms 28%
- TCP connect 51 ms 17%
- Server wait 167 ms 55%
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 304 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 35.4 KB over 7 request(s), which is lean. Images files are 55% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/2, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
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.
The headless browser did not capture this page when the test ran, so only the server measurements are shown.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 7 request(s) in total, 35.4 KB across all of them.
No failing audits: the page passes everything this test can check.
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://apple.news/curUserAgent | html | 404 | 506 ms | 6.9 KB |
| https://apple.news/url | html | 404 | 464 ms | 6.9 KB |
| https://www.apple.com/wss/fonts?families=SF+Pro,v1|SF+Pro+Icons,v1 3rd party | other | 404 | 450 ms | 0 B |
| https://apple.news/css/index.css | css | 200 | 374 ms | 20 B |
| https://apple.news/images/apple-touch-icon_v6.png | images | 200 | 350 ms | 10.7 KB |
| https://apple.news/images/favicon.ico | images | 200 | 343 ms | 8.8 KB |
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