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chicago.suntimes.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:48 UTC. Grade A (92/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/

20 October 2026 at 14:48 UTC · Free test · report pt_13c54af62960
Grade
A
92/100
Performance96/100
Structure85/100

13 audit(s) passed, 3 need work

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First byte (TTFB)362 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.35 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight196.1 KBcompressed transfer
HTML document141.2 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3istio-envoy
Third-party54.8 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 58 ms 16%
  • TCP connect 26 ms 7%
  • Server wait 279 ms 77%

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 bytefaster than 62% of 4,999 pages tested here362 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightlighter than 80% of 4,999 pages tested here196.1 KB against a median of 650.5 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 80% of 4,999 pages tested here1.35 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 arrived in 362 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 196.1 KB over 26 request(s).
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • 28% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.

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.

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Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 7 requests
38.7 KB 20%
Html 18 requests
16.2 KB 8%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 196.1 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Render-blocking resources

high impact

8 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (4 script(s), 4 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.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 141.2 KB. A bloated document delays every other request, because nothing else can start until it is parsed.

Fix: Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.

Avoid extra redirects

medium impact

2 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

IMAGEScst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/fb/5be4f3974c0f810df3518b0761fe/cst…
985 ms
HTMLcst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b39d44c/2147483647/strip…
949 ms
IMAGEScst.brightspotcdn.com/2a/98/f071f53548639088edca14d9a392/cpm…
947 ms
HTMLcst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ac78a34/2147483647/strip…
942 ms
HTMLcst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3f09e9f/2147483647/strip…
940 ms
HTMLcst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9ad02ca/2147483647/strip…
937 ms
HTMLcst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/aa32dd9/2147483647/strip…
933 ms
HTMLcst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f576c62/2147483647/strip…
933 ms
HTMLcst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f380da7/2147483647/strip…
932 ms
HTMLcst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e4a4169/2147483647/strip…
932 ms

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
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https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/2a/98/f071f53548639088edca14d9a392/cpm-global-header.svg 3rd partyimages200947 ms12.4 KB
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ac78a34/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1982+0+9/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd6%2F81%2Fd5f5077046e7bd67dea99d5727c4%2Fesbvoterguideillo2026.png 3rd partyhtml403942 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3f09e9f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x3964+0+18/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F13%2F1a%2F844cf3164aec95f5c94fe06697d8%2F1-omar-c-cory-weaver-la-opera.jpg 3rd partyhtml403940 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9ad02ca/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4835x3223+0+0/resize/105x70!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F69%2Fd1%2F8d93251142099147083ecf9bde71%2Fqueercouture-261024-032.jpg 3rd partyhtml403937 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/aa32dd9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1982+0+7/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F5a%2Fc8%2F648070504633a6e4d2416889bc32%2Fplovers-260617-3.jpg 3rd partyhtml403933 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f576c62/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5989x3957+0+18/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd5%2F00%2F0dfe53504f34a4b312e12eefc00a%2Fyidobrew-261015-11.jpg 3rd partyhtml403933 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f380da7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1982+0+9/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fb5%2F87%2F85475a0d4247bfa6441c8f4fd44b%2Fboeing-050622-1.jpg 3rd partyhtml403932 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e4a4169/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4354x2877+0+13/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc1%2F8e%2F7ff237d94024a7add70508bc8e6d%2Fwilliams-atl.jpg 3rd partyhtml403932 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f695fdd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1877x1240+122+0/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F4d%2F44%2Fcd5627cd356b66d47bb62bab7fe4%2Fmidway061815-1-999x584.jpg 3rd partyhtml403928 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5db14f1/2147483647/strip/true/crop/945x630+2+0/resize/105x70!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F58%2Fd7%2Fbb582a729d323e1398afcbc89478%2Fdear-abby-12880069-e1420416724734-532.jpg 3rd partyhtml403927 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b1b8e5d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2939x1942+0+9/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fa8%2Fb4%2F061620f44d998baac8d936b8fb18%2Fprimaryvoters-260318-10.jpg 3rd partyhtml403926 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/a7/da/9a739da544a698cdb98e1b1c5f27/ctimes-logo.svg 3rd partyimages200924 ms2.5 KB
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https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/d4/5a/32c7741a4b74ac178a915d168f38/logo-mobile-cst.svg 3rd partyimages200916 ms1.2 KB
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/4e/70/e5a98ff54fb2981fd35921f2764b/vocalo-svglogo-tight.svg 3rd partyimages200915 ms3.9 KB
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https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/840a96a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6750x4500+625+0/resize/105x70!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fbc%2F4b%2Fafbb86794771bf4d60cea5653831%2Fana-the-cleaner-4-guy-bauer.png 3rd partyhtml403912 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6d605b6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4188x2792+0+0/resize/105x70!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff4%2F97%2F5e07ab7d46a79a6446e420f70fc6%2F2301059912.jpg 3rd partyhtml403912 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/39/7d/6472452e4a9488bcfb67870cc35b/wbez-global-header-cropped.svg 3rd partyimages200911 ms3.8 KB
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https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/fc09faa/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4571x3020+0+13/resize/840x555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F70%2F48%2F9a9d800d4230b14304259d6fc798%2Fjackson-20.jpg 3rd partyhtml403911 ms919 B
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ca62533/2147483647/strip/true/crop/945x630+40+0/resize/105x70!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F7d%2F24%2Fc51e71f1838642a70619b0248a1b%2Fjapan-honda-recall.jpg 3rd partyhtml403911 ms919 B
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