www.deccanherald.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:32 UTC. Grade B (86/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 67 ms 37%
- TCP connect 9 ms 5%
- Server wait 107 ms 58%
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 183 ms, which is fast: almost all of the wait is the page itself, not the host.
- The page transfers 1.34 MB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 55% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 60% 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 1.05 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.017), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 335 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Compress text responses - Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
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, 1.34 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Compress text responses
high impact2 text response(s) of 10 KB or more are sent uncompressed, and the document itself is not compressed. That is 332.3 KB of compressible text.
Fix: Turn on brotli (preferred) or gzip for text/css, javascript and text/html in the web server. This is the cheapest win available on almost any site.
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 1.34 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 527.8 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Cache static assets
medium impact2 asset(s) answer without a Cache-Control max-age, so browsers revalidate them on every visit.
Fix: Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.
Third-party weight
medium impact12 third-party host(s) serve 825.1 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 527.8 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.
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://cdn-in.amuselabs.com/pmm/js/puzzleme-embed.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.40 s | 12.0 KB |
| https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 965 ms | 131.2 KB |
| https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6098511427863223 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 944 ms | 201.1 KB |
| https://news.google.com/swg/js/v1/swg-basic.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 907 ms | 80.2 KB |
| https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@400;500;700&display=swap 3rd party | css | 200 | 901 ms | 250 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-T46PRBZ 3rd party | html | 200 | 887 ms | 92 B |
| https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=39632204&cv=3.9.1&cj=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 870 ms | 43 B |
| https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/4.1.1/crypto-js.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 869 ms | 13.6 KB |
| https://fea.assettype.com/deccanherald/assets/home-745cd5d145206852b463.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 865 ms | 1.6 KB |
| https://applets.ebxcdn.com/ebx.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 856 ms | 322 B |
| https://cdn.izooto.com/scripts/c9f8d2b38118e02a670466b9dde70a81902a4383.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 850 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png | images | 200 | 839 ms | 2.8 KB |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/assets/2d736e4a654e1ed20442.eot | other | 200 | 839 ms | 73 B |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/apple-touch-icon.png | images | 200 | 838 ms | 6.5 KB |
| https://fea.assettype.com/deccanherald/assets/app-745cd5d145206852b463.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 835 ms | 315.8 KB |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/assets/6bc7a916ba87af048082.gif | images | 200 | 834 ms | 59 B |
| https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/playfairdisplay/v30/nuFvD-vYSZviVYUb_rj3ij__anPXJzDwcbmjWBN2PKeiunDXbtPK-F2qC0s.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 817 ms | 20.6 KB |
| https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/playfairdisplay/v30/nuFvD-vYSZviVYUb_rj3ij__anPXJzDwcbmjWBN2PKdFvXDXbtPK-F2qC0s.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 817 ms | 19.3 KB |
| https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/robotoslab/v25/BngbUXZYTXPIvIBgJJSb6s3BzlRRfKOFbvjoa4Omb2RjV9Su1cai.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 817 ms | 13.9 KB |
| https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/robotoslab/v25/BngbUXZYTXPIvIBgJJSb6s3BzlRRfKOFbvjojISmb2RjV9Su1cai.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 817 ms | 13.8 KB |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | images | 200 | 817 ms | 6.5 KB |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/banner/live | html | 200 | 817 ms | 4.2 KB |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/apple-touch-icon-120x120-precomposed.png | images | 200 | 817 ms | 2.8 KB |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/icons/favicon.svg | images | 200 | 817 ms | 1.4 KB |
| https://www.deccanherald.com/manifest.json | other | 200 | 817 ms | 23 B |
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