www.tagesspiegel.de speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:33 UTC. Grade A (95/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 54 ms 24%
- TCP connect 2 ms 1%
- Server wait 171 ms 75%
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 227 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 557.4 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 76% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 812 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.013), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 269 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.
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. 26 request(s) in total, 557.4 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact5 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 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.
HTML document size
medium impactThe document transfers 135.1 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.
Strict-Transport-Security
low impactHSTS is not set, so the first visit on a hostile network can still be downgraded to HTTP.
Fix: Send Strict-Transport-Security with a max-age of at least six months. Add includeSubDomains once every subdomain is HTTPS.
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.tagesspiegel.de/images/16179708/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1792489998000/president-trump-campaigns-for-gop-candidates-in-san-antonio-texas.jpeg | images | 200 | 987 ms | 10.0 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16179512/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792488484000/2026-10-20-klitschko-selenskyj.png | images | 200 | 979 ms | 58.6 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16070658/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1790611267000/sonja-hartmann-die-mutter-der-verstorbenen-ilse-hartmann-am-gedenkort-fur-ihre-tochter-am-planterarium.jpeg | images | 200 | 966 ms | 9.9 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16179420/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792487127000/2026-bmw-berlin-marathon.jpeg | images | 200 | 961 ms | 11.6 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16158893/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1792178390000/fraktionssitzung-der-berliner-linken.jpeg | images | 200 | 935 ms | 9.7 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16180288/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792496470000/die-gorlitzer-brucke-in-berlin.jpeg | images | 200 | 932 ms | 24.0 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/15584488/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1778509902000/rucken011-old-woman-has-back-problems.jpeg | images | 200 | 929 ms | 8.7 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/15797055/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792496775000/bundesparteitag-der-afd.jpeg | images | 200 | 927 ms | 12.3 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16083743/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1790073558000/abgeordnetenhaus-wahl-berlin-stimmabgabe.jpeg | images | 200 | 925 ms | 9.1 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16169261/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1792141909000/2026-10-15-pol-deutschland-2050-lang-schwerdtner.jpeg | images | 200 | 914 ms | 7.3 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16157939/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1791898042000/miete013-historisches-treppenhaus-mit-roten-stufen-in-berliner-altbau-a-winding-historical-staircase-with-red-linoleum-lining-cop.jpeg | images | 200 | 913 ms | 13.9 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16157152/alternates/BASE_21_9_W1000/1792417614000/ebner-c-justin-giffiths-williams-sv.jpeg | images | 200 | 909 ms | 41.5 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16179592/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792489445000/04-expo-03-jsg-mvf-armband-mit-phoenix-aus-karakorum.jpeg | images | 200 | 909 ms | 7.7 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16179708/alternates/BASE_16_9_W600/1792489998000/president-trump-campaigns-for-gop-candidates-in-san-antonio-texas.jpeg | images | 200 | 906 ms | 26.3 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16169261/alternates/BASE_16_9_W600/1792141909000/2026-10-15-pol-deutschland-2050-lang-schwerdtner.jpeg | images | 200 | 906 ms | 22.6 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16177870/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1792418425000/eduardo-ramos-gvcatzmnqlo-unsplash-bearb.jpeg | images | 200 | 905 ms | 9.2 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/12323663/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1725546078000/gesund-ostheoporose.jpeg | images | 200 | 902 ms | 5.2 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16177297/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792413959000/lini-masala.jpeg | images | 200 | 900 ms | 9.6 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16158893/alternates/BASE_16_9_W600/1792178390000/fraktionssitzung-der-berliner-linken.jpeg | images | 200 | 894 ms | 33.6 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16179112/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792479938000/deutschlandticket.jpeg | images | 200 | 893 ms | 17.9 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16179213/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792483214000/schuldspruch-mann-stiehlt-flamingo-aus-hotel-in-las-vegas.jpeg | images | 200 | 890 ms | 9.6 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16178967/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792475658000/neubaugebiet.jpeg | images | 200 | 884 ms | 21.4 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/12092945/alternates/BASE_16_9_W300/1723707167000/fit025-senior-woman-with-kettlebell-exercising-amidst-people-at-health-club.jpeg | images | 200 | 879 ms | 9.1 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16177870/alternates/BASE_16_9_W600/1792418425000/eduardo-ramos-gvcatzmnqlo-unsplash-bearb.jpeg | images | 200 | 871 ms | 25.0 KB |
| https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/16180044/alternates/BASE_4_3_W300/1792492917000/file-photo-joint-news-conference-of-ukraine-s-president-zelenskiy-u-s-special-representatives-witkoff-and-kushner-in-kyiv.jpeg | images | 200 | 850 ms | 8.5 KB |
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