www.nbcnews.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:30 UTC. Grade D (66/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.nbcnews.com/

20 October 2026 at 12:30 UTC · Free test · report pt_659309c3f943

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Grade

66/100

Performance70/100

Structure61/100

9 audit(s) passed, 7 need work

First byte (TTFB)404 msmeasured from this server

Fully loaded1.48 sfirst byte + slowest asset

Requests26document + assets

Page weight9.64 MBcompressed transfer

HTML document168.9 KBbr

ProtocolHTTP/3nginx

Third-party9.47 MBother hosts

Where the first byte went

DNS lookup 71 ms 18%
TCP connect 60 ms 15%
Server wait 273 ms 68%

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 bytefaster than 56% of 4,999 pages tested here404 ms against a median of 449 ms

Page weightheavier than 97% of 4,999 pages tested here9.64 MB against a median of 650.3 KB

Fully loadedfaster than 72% of 4,999 pages tested here1.48 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.

What these numbers mean

The first byte arrived in 404 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
The page transfers 9.64 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 98% 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.
98% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.

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.

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Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 23 requests

9.47 MB 98%

Html 2 requests

324 B 0%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 9.64 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 404 ms. Of that, 273 ms was the server thinking and 131 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 impact

1 image(s) over 200 KB and 1 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 impact

16 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 script(s), 16 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.

Total page weight

high impact

The page transfers 9.64 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 168.9 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

Third-party weight

medium impact

3 third-party host(s) serve 9.47 MB 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.