www.abc.net.au speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:42 UTC. Grade B (86/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 64 ms 34%
- TCP connect 26 ms 14%
- Server wait 96 ms 52%
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 186 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 1.49 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 91% 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.
- 91% 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 540 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.010), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 527 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
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.
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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. 26 request(s) in total, 1.49 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact42 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 script(s), 42 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.
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 1.49 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 134.7 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact1 third-party host(s) serve 1.35 MB 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 134.7 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 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://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/1368b5ebd506ee8b269567acf5e97056?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=1969&cropW=2954&xPos=362&yPos=169&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.64 s | 90.6 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/ee972dc0bbd2108b17d7821a79aa896d?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=1589&cropW=2387&xPos=0&yPos=170&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 990 ms | 135.2 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/9fd25cb1d7ddd6a8f24991803799e149?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3557&cropW=4743&xPos=129&yPos=0&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 987 ms | 8.3 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/f20f0ec9ce0daf0759b15706d609c1fd?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2333&cropW=3500&xPos=0&yPos=18&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 986 ms | 118.6 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/d94376187b1df133e82bcd8df1e02500?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3333&cropW=4444&xPos=278&yPos=0&width=862&height=647 3rd party | images | 200 | 984 ms | 64.9 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/bd9569ddbab175085186aeba87a3da7f?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3333&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 980 ms | 111.1 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/ff004346d44fa8b2b6dcb127004afeef?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=1659&cropW=2212&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 979 ms | 11.1 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/4e0678dbe084d8815453e3d523a01bc7?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2625&cropW=3500&xPos=832&yPos=9&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 976 ms | 10.9 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/1189a6f457659367751f3c74ca00bcd8?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3334&cropW=4445&xPos=277&yPos=0&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 966 ms | 6.5 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/2914bae45074e4ee1c878d93312054c2?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3333&cropW=4444&xPos=278&yPos=0&width=862&height=647 3rd party | images | 200 | 953 ms | 172.7 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/bb3a5ea21b44d7874b460f40c38170b1?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2951&cropW=3935&xPos=556&yPos=159&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 947 ms | 6.8 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/e4ffb45d06de8c6e340979b09a549791?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2642&cropW=2642&xPos=392&yPos=1011&width=160&height=160 3rd party | images | 200 | 945 ms | 7.6 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/2cfd406d832efde0d378214312a9199a?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3333&cropW=4444&xPos=249&yPos=0&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 934 ms | 11.7 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/eda93974acface2f94987b8dea110207?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2814&cropW=3752&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=647 3rd party | images | 200 | 932 ms | 79.0 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/6391f4beed4041f66864582507fdb3cc?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2383&cropW=3177&xPos=165&yPos=0&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 931 ms | 9.3 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/25a5b3381a8314d9ffdb4e920b1f6383?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3333&cropW=4999&xPos=1&yPos=0&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 929 ms | 130.2 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/01bf8deb40ffcd84b51b1e7672b9456d?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=485&cropW=647&xPos=108&yPos=0&width=862&height=647 3rd party | images | 200 | 928 ms | 74.7 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/34c76a1fb3e86f593fe7935e272e6ca3?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=682&cropW=1023&xPos=1&yPos=0&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 927 ms | 104.5 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/01a8d0b0c0b3f12bf5abd3b64b44c982?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2036&cropW=2036&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=160&height=160 3rd party | images | 200 | 920 ms | 6.0 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/0f067f13c3e29683b1a42084296e09fe?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=530&cropW=795&xPos=935&yPos=925&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 919 ms | 88.8 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a92428eca4e17a743b261d1de9437495?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=1309&cropW=1746&xPos=934&yPos=90&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 919 ms | 4.2 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/7cd5cd7df9fb9bd961a459fff62c19c0?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=451&cropW=601&xPos=626&yPos=234&width=160&height=120 3rd party | images | 200 | 915 ms | 4.6 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/1a8a61a6bc41e2960f9d414e73617e42?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=1606&cropW=1606&xPos=0&yPos=155&width=160&height=160 3rd party | images | 200 | 906 ms | 7.1 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/8073fec5aacb1d65c2035253d5ce2868?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=703&cropW=1055&xPos=43&yPos=0&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 884 ms | 72.2 KB |
| https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a00886d2df3041af90f86ffa416e14f0?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=333&cropW=500&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=575 3rd party | images | 200 | 882 ms | 50.1 KB |
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