www.prothomalo.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:11 UTC. Grade A (91/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 61 ms 25%
- TCP connect 29 ms 12%
- Server wait 157 ms 64%
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 247 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 762.9 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 49% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 49% 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.
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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, 762.9 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 131.2 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 impact7 third-party host(s) serve 376.6 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.
HTML document size
medium impactThe document transfers 331.9 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.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: app-c97ebfcf221d3f5f8e3d.js (230.4 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
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://s0.2mdn.net/dfp/366178/6153024393/1792076464754/300x250_V2/index.html 3rd party | html | 200 | 909 ms | 2.2 KB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-TDCC7GQ 3rd party | html | 200 | 850 ms | 223 B |
| https://assets.prothomalo.com/prothomalo/assets/app-c97ebfcf221d3f5f8e3d.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 847 ms | 230.4 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/default.svg | images | 200 | 837 ms | 680 B |
| https://clientcdn.pushengage.com/core/61a71ead19398fba5514eb0ef83d600c.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 835 ms | 649 B |
| https://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat_mab.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 829 ms | 9.8 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/media-placeholder.svg | images | 200 | 827 ms | 314 B |
| https://media.prothomalo.com/prothomalo-bangla/2025-11-17/qix5skks/palo-bangla.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 825 ms | 2.2 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-48x48.png | images | 200 | 812 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/manifest.json | other | 200 | 811 ms | 470 B |
| https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 796 ms | 131.2 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-192x192.png | images | 200 | 794 ms | 8.3 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-144x144.png | images | 200 | 794 ms | 5.3 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-120x120.png | images | 200 | 794 ms | 4.4 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-114x114.png | images | 200 | 794 ms | 4.1 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-72x72.png | images | 200 | 794 ms | 2.7 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-76x76.png | images | 200 | 794 ms | 2.2 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-60x60.png | images | 200 | 794 ms | 1.9 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-57x57.png | images | 200 | 794 ms | 1.8 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-180x180.png | images | 200 | 793 ms | 6.8 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-152x152.png | images | 200 | 793 ms | 5.7 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-32x32.png | images | 200 | 793 ms | 1.6 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-36x36.png | images | 200 | 793 ms | 1.4 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-16x16.png | images | 200 | 793 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://www.prothomalo.com/favicons/favicon-96x96.png | images | 200 | 792 ms | 3.8 KB |
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