www.aftonbladet.se speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:39 UTC. Grade B (81/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 52 ms 8%
- TCP connect 11 ms 2%
- Server wait 552 ms 90%
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 took 616 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 317.9 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 79% 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.
- 79% 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 444 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.060), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 79 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
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.
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, 317.9 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 616 ms. Of that, 552 ms was the server thinking and 63 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.
Image delivery and format
high impact1 image(s) over 200 KB and 0 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.
Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.
Render-blocking resources
high impact17 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (14 script(s), 3 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 impact3 third-party host(s) serve 252.2 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.
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://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/a38ac6fb-a090-3043-b030-d308ffdecbb9?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=9c9068a496ed9393dd8f37369744394649da1617 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.51 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/ae83ef46-9d46-35eb-b7a2-297e950d0d68?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=542e94b76dcc44d10e001abfb9c20dd3fa542f80 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.50 s | 1.2 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/134d9783-e5cf-3a80-b8e8-e2fd43027b4c?fit=crop&format=auto&w=40&s=0c62d2d3bd137ccb0b97895fec1f38d7aadc5374 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.48 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/d866ccde-d8aa-3597-8330-62e293fa8d20?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=7d4e0339f9bdf6c63a267b7baa2f9c27571048fe 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.47 s | 4.0 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/fab5230b-d06b-36ab-8a17-94d786804dea?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=5c7860127efe8628c5774d7513873abe3da636c5 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.47 s | 1.3 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/59cc71a3-5a01-34f7-9712-20465b1fa38b?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=9aad16e0798e5b52a907c5bed5a3a12394e9694a 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.45 s | 4.3 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/21dc4a57-c679-49cd-ac0a-e613c27d200d?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=e51a3996a5d7c469360ebf8acbc2b712fd9aaf9a 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.45 s | 1.0 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/d20b6680-2483-4889-a8b8-81304882de15?fit=crop&format=auto&w=40&s=345be6f6e59e7f8a22bf836b607fb1d68781d4dd 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.43 s | 2.5 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/db23cc9e-9ca7-3753-b27d-924a658e76df?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=8113cd1e786176b5c07dc6c6db395a488be08b69 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.19 s | 1.1 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/af9e4b86-c163-3468-86ba-0def29e6fd4d?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=620957347444bbefdaeae96ec48b9abeb16859c0 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.18 s | 1.5 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/5c553bc3-018a-3ad2-8ec9-2d4a9216b491?fit=crop&format=auto&h=40&tight=true&w=40&s=05f1da787b9e7279f0c4d37de46aa5d1c3e4b4fa 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.12 s | 4.0 KB |
| https://mediacdn.prenly.com/api/image/etidning.aftonbladet.se/941/latest-issue 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.07 s | 209.4 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/header/logo-aftonbladet-plus-default.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.04 s | 1.4 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/header/logo-aftonbladet-default.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.04 s | 1.3 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/header/logo-aftonbladet-dark.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 1.7 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/external/symbols/podme-symbol.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 1.2 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/header/logo-sportbladet-plus-dark.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/header/logo-sportbladet-dark.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/external/symbols/schibsted-blue-symbol.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 1.9 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/header/logo-aftonbladet-plus-dark.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/header/logo-sportbladet-plus-default.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/header/logo-sportbladet-default.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 1.5 KB |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/v2/web/aftonbladet-plus-symbol-default.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 616 B |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/external/symbols/svd-symbol.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 613 B |
| https://cdn.aftonbladet.se/logotypes/external/symbols/omni-symbol.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 547 B |
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