www.accuweather.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC. Grade A (93/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 69 ms 19%
- TCP connect 38 ms 11%
- Server wait 251 ms 70%
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 358 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 291.7 KB over 25 request(s). Javascript files are 57% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 62% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
- The largest element painted at 208 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
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.
Screenshot
What the page looks like
Loaded in headless Chromium on this server. Click an image to open it full size.
Browser render
The same URL loaded in a real browser, so these are the readings curl cannot produce. The grade above is still built from the server measurements.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 25 request(s) in total, 291.7 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.
Render-blocking resources
high impact6 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 5 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.
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://www.accuweather.com/fonts/Solis-Regular.woff2 | fonts | 200 | 1.20 s | 22.3 KB |
| https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 970 ms | 131.2 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/tags/glacier/body/search-bar-ad-6275e848.js | javascript | 200 | 950 ms | 598 B |
| https://www.accuweather.com/tags/common/body/video-player-ad-e5d3860c.js | javascript | 200 | 948 ms | 485 B |
| https://www.awxcdn.com/adc-assets/bundles/legacy-header.ad7602708464eedf801c.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 945 ms | 8.1 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/akam/13/49d7ced2 | html | 503 | 935 ms | 15.7 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/images/weathericons/v2a/35.svg | images | 200 | 933 ms | 1.5 KB |
| https://www.awxcdn.com/adc-assets/bundles/675.4dd4b45e732be1989ba9.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 926 ms | 10.0 KB |
| https://www.awxcdn.com/adc-assets/bundles/9588.975c91a96d3ee50e0045.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 925 ms | 6.7 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/images/weathericons/v2a/34.svg | images | 200 | 923 ms | 1.5 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/tags/common/ketch/ketch-507b2477.css | css | 200 | 922 ms | 144 B |
| https://www.accuweather.com/tags/common/body/ad-script-e23d73c7.js | javascript | 200 | 918 ms | 3.9 KB |
| https://www.awxcdn.com/adc-assets/bundles/8249.be28be1e83db0bd60b7e.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 916 ms | 6.3 KB |
| https://www.awxcdn.com/adc-assets/bundles/home.home-desktop.7c06391a431c4910b19f.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 905 ms | 4.1 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/akam/13/pixel_49d7ced2?a=dD0yNDcxMDkzYjM1ODIyZDQ4NWEzNDViZWQyNGFhYWY0MzUwMDI5MWEwJmpzPW9mZg== | html | 200 | 904 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.accuweather.com/images/weathericons/v2a/02.svg | images | 200 | 891 ms | 1.5 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/images/weathericons/v2a/38.svg | images | 200 | 891 ms | 1.5 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/tags/shared/prebid/prebid-a-f100974d.js | javascript | 200 | 891 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/images/weathericons/v2a/01.svg | images | 200 | 891 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/images/weathericons/v2a/33.svg | images | 200 | 891 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://www.accuweather.com/images/weathericons/v2a/06.svg | images | 200 | 891 ms | 904 B |
| https://www.accuweather.com/images/weathericons/v2a/11.svg | images | 200 | 891 ms | 687 B |
| https://www.awxcdn.com/adc-assets/bundles/5503.8fed87d8cf62bb6dba48.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 890 ms | 7.5 KB |
| https://www.awxcdn.com/adc-assets/bundles/legacy-header.ea8e7c1237dc064e4b7b.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 890 ms | 5.8 KB |
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