www.thestar.com.my speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:58 UTC. Grade E (52/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 66 ms 4%
- TCP connect 32 ms 2%
- Server wait 1.55 s 94%
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
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What these numbers mean
- The first byte took 1.65 s. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
- The page transfers 1.42 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 90% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 97% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
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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, 1.42 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 1651 ms. Of that, 1553 ms was the server thinking and 98 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.
Image delivery and format
high impact2 image(s) over 200 KB and 1 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.
Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.
Render-blocking resources
high impact49 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (22 script(s), 27 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.
Serve everything over HTTPS
high impact1 asset(s) are still requested over plain HTTP.
Fix: Redirect HTTP to HTTPS at the server, and rewrite the remaining http:// asset references so nothing depends on browser upgrading.
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 1.42 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 40.1 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
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://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/10/20/thumbs/small/4171969.jpeg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.36 s | 9.1 KB |
| https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/10/20/thumbs/small/4171959.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 865 ms | 4.8 KB |
| https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/10/20/thumbs/small/4171979.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 828 ms | 6.1 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/jquery.unveil.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 823 ms | 574 B |
| https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/10/20/thumbs/700/4172024.webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 820 ms | 218.9 KB |
| https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/10/20/4172024.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 819 ms | 980.6 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/jquery.dotdotdot.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 817 ms | 2.5 KB |
| https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/vue.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 812 ms | 31.5 KB |
| https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/10/20/thumbs/small/4171963.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 812 ms | 13.5 KB |
| https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/10/20/thumbs/small/4171900.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 811 ms | 12.1 KB |
| https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 810 ms | 30.3 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/widget_mixin.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 809 ms | 1.9 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/Main.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 807 ms | 6.4 KB |
| https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/axios/0.19.0/axios.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 807 ms | 4.1 KB |
| https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/URI.js/1.18.10/URI.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 804 ms | 12.8 KB |
| https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/postscribe/2.0.8/postscribe.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 803 ms | 5.0 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/js.cookie.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 803 ms | 877 B |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/dateutil.min.js?v=001 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 797 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/img/times-solid.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 797 ms | 195 B |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/img/close.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 792 ms | 563 B |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/img/PutraBrandAward2026.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 787 ms | 32.6 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/img/Nexus/gift-spin.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 778 ms | 27.4 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/img/nexus_logo.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 778 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/slick.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 777 ms | 10.0 KB |
| http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035691&cv=2.0&cj=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 760 ms | 43 B |
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