www.indiatimes.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:24 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 47 ms 24%
- TCP connect 16 ms 8%
- Server wait 129 ms 67%
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 server answered in 192 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 453.0 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 61% 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.
- 95% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 453.0 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Compress text responses
high impact1 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is not compressed. That is 131.5 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact4 third-party host(s) serve 431.5 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.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact1 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
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://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/131528981.cms?imgsize=422424&width=96&height=96&resizemode=3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 164.1 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/135065708.cms?imgsize=47592&width=672&height=388&resizemode=8 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 17.9 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/134066111.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 2.4 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/authorthumb/479279231.cms?imgsize=230&width=90&height=90&resizemode=8 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/authorthumb/479279655.cms?imgsize=230&width=90&height=90&resizemode=8 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 1.7 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/authorthumb/479279419.cms?imgsize=230&width=90&height=90&resizemode=8 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 1.4 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/authorthumb/479269789.cms?imgsize=230&width=90&height=90&resizemode=8 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 1.2 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129822152.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 866 B |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129822157.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 642 B |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129678292.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 518 B |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129921789.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 493 B |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129822158.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 474 B |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129822109.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 458 B |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129822156.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 368 B |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129822109.cms?imgsize=422424&width=44&resizemode=3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.17 s | 1.0 KB |
| https://assets.toiimg.com/assets/prebid/js/indiatimes_prebid.js 3rd party | javascript | 0 | 5.12 s | 0 B |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/131605430.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.51 s | 1.3 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/131605431.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.47 s | 16.8 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/131528969.cms?imgsize=422424&width=96&height=96&resizemode=3 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.30 s | 8.9 KB |
| https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/itads_v2/minify-1.cms 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.20 s | 25.6 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/authorthumb/479268920.cms?imgsize=230&width=90&height=90&resizemode=8 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.15 s | 1.3 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129676971.cms 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.04 s | 1.1 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129652477.cms?imgsize=422424&height=81&resizemode=3 3rd party | images | 200 | 847 ms | 17.0 KB |
| https://staticimg.publishstory.co/thumb/129652477.cms?imgsize=422424&height=130&resizemode=3 3rd party | images | 200 | 844 ms | 32.4 KB |
| https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js?network-code=23037861279 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 840 ms | 131.5 KB |
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