www.dailymail.com/ushome/index.html speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:27 UTC. Grade C (79/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.dailymail.com/ushome/index.html

20 October 2026 at 12:27 UTC · Free test · report pt_4eba795a3a03

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Grade

79/100

Performance84/100

Structure71/100

9 audit(s) passed, 7 need work

First byte (TTFB)753 msmeasured from this server

Fully loaded1.73 sfirst byte + slowest asset

Requests26document + assets

Page weight441.5 KBcompressed transfer

HTML document148.7 KBgzip

ProtocolHTTP/3server not sent

Third-party292.8 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

DNS lookup 60 ms 8%
TCP connect 36 ms 5%
Server wait 657 ms 87%

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

First byteslower than 73% of 4,999 pages tested here753 ms against a median of 448 ms

Page weightlighter than 62% of 4,999 pages tested here441.5 KB against a median of 650.5 KB

Fully loadedfaster than 56% of 4,999 pages tested here1.73 s against a median of 1.84 s

Requestssends more requests than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here26 against a median of 26

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.

Score history

2 tests of this URL, oldest to newest: 82 → 79 out of 100. The top line is a perfect score.

What these numbers mean

The first byte took 753 ms. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
The page transfers 441.5 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.
The largest element painted at 148 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.

Fix first: Server response time (TTFB) - Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.

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.

Since the test on 20 Oct 2026

Metric	Then	Now	Change
Grade	82/100	79/100	worse
Performance	89/100	84/100	worse
First byte	612 ms	753 ms	worse
Fully loaded	1.60 s	1.73 s	worse
Largest contentful paint	164 ms	148 ms	better

Both runs came from this server, so the difference is the page, not the network in between. Open the earlier report.

Screenshot

What the page looks like

Loaded in headless Chromium on this server. Click an image to open it full size.

Mobile screenshot of www.dailymail.com — **Mobile** 390 × 844 · 8.1 KB · page is 2121 px tall

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.

Largest contentful paint148 msgood is under 2.5 s

Cumulative layout shift0.000under 0.1 is stable

Total blocking timenone over 50 mslong tasks during load

First contentful paint148 msfirst content on screen

Browser page weight875 B1 request(s), scripts included

Largest contentful paint148 ms

Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s

Cumulative layout shift0.000

Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25

Total blocking timenone over 50 ms

Goodgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests

292.8 KB 66%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 441.5 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 753 ms. Of that, 657 ms was the server thinking and 96 ms was connection setup. A first byte under 400 ms is what a visitor feels as instant.

Fix: Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

26 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (6 script(s), 20 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 impact

3 third-party host(s) serve 292.8 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 impact

The document transfers 148.7 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 impact

2 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

IMAGESi.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/12/111974983-0-image-m-2…

977 ms

IMAGESi.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/13/111389719-0-image-m-7…

972 ms