gulfnews.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:29 UTC. Grade A (95/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 54 ms 27%
- TCP connect 2 ms 1%
- Server wait 142 ms 72%
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 198 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 531.5 KB over 17 request(s). Javascript files are 53% 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.
- 75% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
Fix first: Cache static assets - Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.
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. 17 request(s) in total, 531.5 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Cache static assets
medium impact5 asset(s) answer without a Cache-Control max-age, so browsers revalidate them on every visit.
Fix: Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.
Third-party weight
medium impact6 third-party host(s) serve 398.7 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 132.6 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.
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://gulfnews.com/%23a | html | 404 | 823 ms | 0 B |
| https://gulfnews.com/gulfnews/assets/e591981534e7a5c22ba0.svg | images | 200 | 721 ms | 187 B |
| https://assets.gulfnews.com/gn_favicon_180x180.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 704 ms | 3.4 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/gulfnews/2026-09-18/l3x0ukro/gn-logo-sonic-dark-blue.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 696 ms | 3.5 KB |
| https://assets.gulfnews.com/gn_favicon_48x48.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 687 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://assets.gulfnews.com/gn_favicon_32x32.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 685 ms | 817 B |
| https://fea.assettype.com/gulfnews/assets/app-07aa13bfa76aab0fff6a.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 678 ms | 137.9 KB |
| https://j.bids.ws/gulfnews/gam.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 663 ms | 145.2 KB |
| https://assets.gulfnews.com/gn_favicon_192x192.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 663 ms | 3.7 KB |
| https://fea.assettype.com/gulfnews/assets/home-07aa13bfa76aab0fff6a.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 663 ms | 899 B |
| https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/robotoserif/v13/R71RjywflP6FLr3gZx7K8UyuXDs9zVwDmXCb8lxYgmuii32UGoVldX6UgfjL4-3sMM_kB_qXSEXTJQCFLH5-_bcElvQql6B8Bg.woff 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 661 ms | 34.1 KB |
| https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/robotoserif/v13/R71RjywflP6FLr3gZx7K8UyuXDs9zVwDmXCb8lxYgmuii32UGoVldX6UgfjL4-3sMM_kB_qXSEXTJQCFLH5-_bcEliotl6B8Bg.woff 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 661 ms | 30.8 KB |
| https://assets.gulfnews.com/gn_favicon_16x16.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 661 ms | 485 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-NRHHF2B2 3rd party | html | 200 | 661 ms | 235 B |
| https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/montserrat/v26/JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM73w5aXw.woff 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 660 ms | 18.4 KB |
| https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/montserrat/v26/JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtZ6Hw5aXw.woff 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 660 ms | 18.2 KB |
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