www.huffpost.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:37 UTC. Grade A (93/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 36 ms 24%
- TCP connect 23 ms 15%
- Server wait 92 ms 61%
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 151 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 645.1 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 66% 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.
- 66% 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.
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Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 645.1 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact13 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (3 script(s), 10 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact1 third-party host(s) serve 423.7 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 221.5 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://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad638e01c0000426a265ab7.jpeg?cache=4DUv2v0gTd&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 873 ms | 18.3 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad72d701c0000307d265c0a.jpeg?cache=eR5STHXzmY&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 872 ms | 11.8 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad6900d2700000d2f98a076.jpeg?cache=7TVB5gGk3D&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 870 ms | 8.9 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad70a25270000565198a0bd.jpeg?cache=EKWqgjRPaZ&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 869 ms | 13.7 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad6e3081c0000fc77265bbf.jpeg?cache=2XfRnWJIil&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 869 ms | 12.9 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad7490d270000036298a11c.jpeg?cache=C3CXlmP4r2&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 869 ms | 11.7 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad6402e270000ac15989fac.jpeg?cache=pguHeN4YUJ&ops=200_200 3rd party | images | 200 | 866 ms | 6.3 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad702691c00005f6c265bd3.jpeg?cache=lCPKsvQNEr&ops=200_200 3rd party | images | 200 | 865 ms | 11.8 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad743f9270000806098a114.jpeg?cache=6LqvFiaqot&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 858 ms | 16.3 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad750ba270000e56398a122.jpeg?cache=lWpEF5htZ8&ops=scalefit_1200_800_noupscale 3rd party | images | 200 | 857 ms | 84.3 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad5ccec2700003df4989f07.jpeg?cache=AfBs0ZOeH5&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 854 ms | 16.9 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad08601270000d5a8989b08.jpeg?cache=CA3A43pvKY&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 854 ms | 11.7 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad5d66e1c0000b562265a26.jpeg?cache=HUFDgGkkp4&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 854 ms | 10.1 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad5efc01c00005f5e265a41.jpeg?cache=fDBanvkMef&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 851 ms | 12.0 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad5f59c1c0000dd64265a48.jpeg?cache=M6LQkLH8S1&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 849 ms | 20.0 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad6397d2700006d13989fa2.jpeg?cache=WuLpqKvupy&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 846 ms | 19.7 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad5da7b1c00000c63265a2a.jpeg?cache=KsweZnsxO2&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 845 ms | 10.4 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad66a82270000702398a059.jpeg?cache=6j5xK2Km3J&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 844 ms | 22.1 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad6056a1c0000b360265a51.jpg?cache=tn9umj3EG7&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 844 ms | 18.3 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad5dae21c00005f5e265a2d.jpeg?cache=i6fZH15cS8&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 843 ms | 17.5 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad5b95c1c00000460265a05.jpeg?cache=ukiinENBQE&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 843 ms | 16.5 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad6059a270000d203989f3b.jpeg?cache=7dfTiVVaVz&ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 843 ms | 14.0 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad678b7270000c02798a066.jpeg?cache=FECYDPVraP&ops=400_225 3rd party | images | 200 | 843 ms | 13.6 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad627121c0000b360265a92.jpeg?ops=434_244%2Cquality_75 3rd party | images | 200 | 843 ms | 8.1 KB |
| https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6ad713e71c0000337b265bde.jpeg?cache=ChkJ8a49Lm&ops=320_180 3rd party | images | 200 | 842 ms | 16.8 KB |
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